Problematizations from the frontier. The black boy in Cordoba at the beginning of the 20th century

Abstract

This article has analyzed, through the case of the negra muchacho (black girl), some characteristics of the colonial regime established in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, at the beginning of the 20th century. The case of the black girl, who is remembered for her presence in studies of the time, allows us to evidence the nominative regime and the reading of corporalities and subjectivities imposed by the gender arrangement of modernity/coloniality; and to trace its borderline, that which remains outside and resists it. Decoloniality studies insist on the importance of problematizing the colonial regimes that are articulated, situationally, from the conformation of national states. In order to contribute to this, and by means of the bibliographic analysis of studies that deal with the life of the popular sectors of Córdoba, aspects of the history of the negra muchacho are recovered that allow to put in tension the categories and the regimes of visibility of coloniality; and to articulate, at the same time, forms of resistance to them. The black girl and her presence in the Cordoba society of that time, tensions the different ways of nominating, classifying and inhabiting the space-time, inviting us to new ways of producing knowledge.