ABSTRACT
What is the Argentine nation? The answer to that question changed significantly between 1900 and 2022. Nationhood is fluid and plastic and contested by different groups. With rare exceptions, rural people of color have been excluded from these discussions. The introduction outlines the book's goals and offers an analysis of how the idea of the nation has evolved over the past 120 years. It stresses contested meanings of the nation in Argentina while probing visual renderings of the nation and the shifting meanings of monuments to explain the evolving political manifestations of Peronism, the role of the armed forces in society, and the centrality of immigration narratives to the structuring of national identities.
