Argentina is often seen internationally as a largely white Latin American country — a perception grounded not only in demography, but in decades of national narratives that invisibilized its African roots. Today, Black women in Argentina remain a small but powerfully symbolic presence. Their visibility — often confined to hypersexualized or marginalized spaces — raises uncomfortable but necessary questions about history, representation, migration, and the lingering effects of erasure. This article explores why there are so few Black people in Argentina today, how Black women navigate a landscape shaped by whiteness and exoticization, and why some end up in industries like adult entertainment or working as
escorts in Argentina, but due to structural forces far beyond ...