At first glance of the current Buenos Aires, one would pre-conclude that the population is purely white or of European ancestry. However, after reading the book authored by George Reid Andrews, one would think otherwise. As the author noted in his book, the population of the Afro-Argentines who obviously were in existence during the 1800s did not dwindle to nothing as many people described it. The mass of historical commentary on the Afro-Argentines’ disappearance have …showed first 75 words of 1177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1177 total…that a nation in pursuit of sovereignty and modernization can easily and frequently impede its residents’ liberty and even basic human rights. These injustices forced the Afro-Argentines to socially and genetically integrate with the greater society in order to climb up the social ladder and to gain their deserved respect from the society in which they live in. “The Afro-Argentines were lost to view, but they had disappeared only in the eye of the beholder.”