Abstract
The early 2000s have witnessed a notable rethinking of the social terms of nationalism in Argentina. During much of the twentieth century, prominent intellectuals and political authorities celebrated European ancestry and racial whiteness as defining characteristics of Argentine society, while calling attention to the supposed absence of people of indigenous and African descent—claims that formed part of broader efforts to present Argentina as fundamentally different from (if not superior to) other countries in Latin America.¹ In recent years, however, these assumptions have been challenged by a range of groups within Argentina, including by officials in the Néstor Kirchner and