Mexico's Post-Revolutionary People's Movements

lived under slavery. Candioti provides new evidence on the overlapping language of abolition and the disappearance of people of African ancestry, showing intersections in the discourse promoting abolition with early iterations of the myth of “disappearance”—the racial narratives depicting the extinction of people of African ancestry from Argentina. This book may interest those examining the late nineteenth century, by connecting the politics of post-abolition with the efforts of elites to extract labor from subaltern populations through the increasing presence of the police, military, public health, and public education in everyday life.