Imagining the Afro-Uruguayan Conventillo: Belonging and the Fetish of Place and Blackness
This thesis explores the symbolic place occupied by a racialized neighbourhood within the Uruguayan national imaginary. I study the conventillos (tenement buildings) of two traditionally Afro-Uruguayan neighbourhoods in Montevideo, Barrio Sur and Palermo. These neighbourhoods are considered the crad...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26479 |