Página del Dólar

Item

Title: Página del Dólar
Subject: Bodies
Description: This one-page comic strip with six black-and-white panels shows a middle-class Black couple holding a party at their house. Everyone is dressed in formal evening wear. The wife introduces four white guests individually to her husband. He makes comments aside that ridicule each one and relate them to animals. He ends by saying that, to hold a party, he doesn’t see the need to turn his house into a zoo.
Country: Argentina
Format: Comic
Creator: Arístides Rechain, 1888-1962
Date: 1923
Identifier: 1197551
Source: La Novela Semanal, 26 de febrero de 1923. Año VII, No. 276.
Item Location: Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, Argentina
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Related Bibliography: Wade, Peter. 2023. The ambivalence of Blackness in early twentieth-century Argentinian comics: “Página del Dólar”. Ethnic and Racial Studies:1-21. Available from https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2268695.