{"product_id":"black-legend-paulina-l-alberto-9781108845557","title":"Black Legend: The Many Lives of Ra伃 Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina","description":"Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Ra伃 Grigera ('el negro Ra伃'), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires' bohemian nightlife, only to have defamatory storytellers unmake him. In this gripping history, Paulina Alberto exposes the destructive power of racial storytelling and narrates a new history of Black Argentina and Argentine Blackness across two centuries. With the extraordinary Ra伃 Grigera at its center, Black Legend opens new windows into lived experiences of Blackness in a 'white' nation, and illuminates how Ra伃's experience of celebrity was not far removed from more ordinary experiences of racial stories in the flesh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paulina L. Alberto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 110884555X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781108845557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 8.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Paulina L. Alberto","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45476620992767,"sku":"9781108845557","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bd7f1f7-3445-4c7f-8350-d7f5cd299573.jpg?v=1715910356","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-legend-paulina-l-alberto-9781108845557","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}