Introduction vi Guidelines to follow vii How to approach the activities viii Chapter Where is Argentina? 1 1 What has silver got to do with it? 2 How big is Argentina? 3 What are the national symbols of Argentina? 4 What are the main biomes in Argentina? 5 How are the natural features in danger? 6 Chapter 1 Activities 7 Chapter Without Indians, there are no Americas 9 2 Who were the Patagonian Giants? 10 Who were Argentina's invaders? 11 In God and encomienda, we trust? 12 How did Indians avoid encomienda? 13 Were the Jesuit Missions an earthly paradise? 14 Chapter 2 Activities 15 Chapter What is the legacy of the Kongo Kingdom? 17 3 Why was the Kongo Princess burned at the stake? 18 Could diamonds be forever? 19 What was the Assiento de Negroes? 20 To raid or not to raid; is that the question? 21 What is the fallacy of Africans selling each other? 22 What is the fallacy of Africans selling each other 2? 23 Floating tombs - a way to die? 24 What is the evidence of chattel enslavement? 25 Chattel enslavement activities 26 How many were raced across the Atlantic? 27 Who was sold to the highest bidder? 28 Chapter 3 Activities 29-30 Chapter What was the Spanish invention of racism? 32 4 Who was white but not quite? 33 How to buy whiteness and be perfectly white 34 How the castas divided and controlled 35 How African blood is triumphant 36 What was the myth of Black violence? 37 What were Piezas de Indias? 38 Chapter 4 Activities 39-40 Chapter Who were the gauchos and what did they invent? 42 5 Why was the bottomless bucket misappropriated? 43 What was the Tasajo slavery trail to Cuba? 44 There weren't any plantations here... 45 What was the cycle of low status labour? 46 How fashionable were Black children? 47 Chapter 5 Activities 48 Chapter How did the enslaved resist? 50 6 What were the mutiny myths? 51 What were the white myths of resistance? 52 What were the white abolition myths? 53 How the Blacks has kill'd the whites... 54 Is the price of manumission freedom? 55 Free or freed or freeborn or free slave? 56 What is the myth of the slave house? 57 Chapter 6 Activities 58-59 Chapter Why did the British invade? 61 7 What is the 20bn bailout to slave-owning Brits? 62 Why is an Argentine an Italian who speaks Spanish and thinks he's British? 63 Was it conquest of the desert or genocide? 64 In the name of the tourist gaze... 65 Chapter 7 Activities 66 Chapter Why is Argentina known as the whitest nation? 68 8 What was the blanqueamiento of Black people? 69 Why was the Black Mother of Argentina forgotten? 70 How were the enslaved rescued? 71 Who was the real El Negro Falucho? 72 Chapter 8 Activities 73 Chapter What is the Candombe dance? 75 9 How and why did tango change colour? 76 Who were the payadores and what are pulperias? 77 From slave food to national dish... 78 How to serve the drink of the gods 79 Chapter 9 Activities 80 United Nations Human Rights Reports 82 Glossary 83 References 1,2,3,4 84, 85, 86, 87 Picture and Quote Credits 88 Index 89 Author 90
