Violent Argentina: Between Structural Racism and Undeclared Aporophobia

Abstract

This article reflects on structural racism and aporophobia in Argentina. These phenomena frame the rejection, hatred, and violence that unfold in diverse institutional situations. Black, brown, poor, Indigenous, foreign, or native people. Skin color and social class define what is central from what is marginal; what is legitimate from what is illegitimate; what is good from what is bad; what is said from what is left unsaid.
In media, visual, and audiovisual terms, concealment and visibility are semantic operations that unfold from scopic regimes characteristic of our time. Photographic and videographic images shape a broader matrix in which the distribution of power is exercised in terms of visibility and invisibility.