From colonial society to republican society: whites, indians and blacks

Abstract

The break given opposite to the european metropolis after 1816 and the incorporation to the capitalist world order, finished the argentine civil wars, produced a reconfiguration in the social categories.The elements that make up this break in the cultural, social and political context are homogenized in official historiography by phenotypic characteristics, profession, literacy rate, between other. Our aim is to analyze the social categories used in the electoral roll of the city of Catamarca for the period between 1891 and 1893 on the continuity and rupture of the elements of the post-colonial social structure. The research had a heuristic character and then a critical analysis, based on the extracted source of La Actualidad, a local newspaper of the late nineteenth century. Social conceptualizations used in this city, inquire as their origin and characteristics allow us to understand the semantic content and sense of significance ratings on local people. Among the results we can say that cultural diversity expressed for the period included are invisible as social groups and subject to the relations of domination of the new republic. This reconfiguration rearranges social categories, subordinates and naturalizes the subaltern and reaffirms the power of the ruling classes.