Nuestra Raza Explained

Nuestra Raza (Our Race) was an Afro-Uruguayan periodical. The "longest running Black Uruguayan periodical",^[1] it was published from 1917 to 1948.^[2]

It was cofounded by lead editor Pilar Barrios^[1] and his sister María Esperanza Barrios. After María died in 1932, it was refounded in 1933. It notably included contributions by several Afro-Uruguayan women, including María Selva Escalada, Iris Cabral, Maruja Pereyra and María Felina Dias.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Caroll Young . The New Voices of Afro-Uruguay . Afro-Hispanic Review . 13 . 1 . Spring 1995 . 58–64 .
2. Book: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Kwame Anthony Appiah. Kwame Anthony Appiah. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. 2nd. 4. 2005. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-522328-6. 259–260. Nuestra Raza.
3. Caroll Mills Young . From Voicelessness to Voice: Womanist Writers of the Black Uruguayan Press . Afro-Hispanic Review . 23 . 2 . Fall 2004 . 33–38 . 23054551.