Gastón Gordillo

While at IAS, Gastón Gordillo is working to complete a book manuscript on how perceptions of whiteness in Argentina are defined by the sense of being under siege by racialized multitudes. In particular, the book analyzes how historically and in the present the middle-classes and the elites fear crowds of working-class people as if they signaled the return of the “Indian hordes” that until the late 1800s controlled half of Argentina.