White: the Preferred Color of the Argentine Political Class Black to the Polls, White to the Lists

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A decade ago, in October 2015, the Afro-Portuguese newspaper El Afro-Argentino published an editorial denouncing the total absence of Afro-descendants on the electoral lists and pointing to structural racism as a concrete limit of Argentine democracy. A decade later we returned to that text in NEGRX to test it: how much of what is written remains in force and how much progress has been made in black political representation?