Nuestra Raza (Our Race) was an Afro-Uruguayan periodical. The "longest running Black Uruguayan periodical",[1] it was published from 1917 to 1948.[2]
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It was cofounded by lead editor Pilar Barrios[1] and his sister María Esperanza Barrios. After María died in 1932, it was refounded in 1933. It notably included contributions by several Afro-Uruguayan women, including María Selva Escalada, Iris Cabral, Maruja Pereyra and María Felina Dias.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Caroll Young (Spring 1995). "The New Voices of Afro-Uruguay". Afro-Hispanic Review. 13 (1): 58–64.
- ^ Kwame Anthony Appiah; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. (2005). "Nuestra Raza". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 259–260. ISBN 978-0-19-522328-6.
- ^ Caroll Mills Young (Fall 2004). "From Voicelessness to Voice: Womanist Writers of the Black Uruguayan Press". Afro-Hispanic Review. 23 (2): 33–38. JSTOR 23054551.