[Photograph]: Celebrating the Inauguration of the Afro-Uruguayan journal Nuestra Raza

Montevideo, Uruguay, 1933. Unbound. Good. Gelatin silver print. Measuring 6¾" x 4¼". Mounted on card measuring 11½" x 9½". Minor loss to topedge of photo and small area of white material top-left corner not obscuring persons, card worn with light pencil inscription above the image: "Festejo lanzamiento 'Nuestra Raza' / Agosto 1933 ['Nuestra Raza' Launch Celebration / August 1933]." [With]: Barrios, Pilar E. et al. Eds. *Nuestra Raza: Organo de la Colectividad de Color*. No. 1, Año 1 (August 25, 1933). Montevideo, Uruguay: 1933. 8vo, 16 pp.; self-wrapper with loss above stapled fold, paper toned with central crease, good.

Renowned poet Pilar E. Barrios and his two sisters, Ventura and Maria Esperanza Barrios, founded the first iteration of *Nuestra Raza* in 1917. The Uruguayan periodical was dedicated to publishing black poets and authors as well as addressing the political and cultural realities of the African diaspora in South America. While it folded after only a few issues, it was later resurrected in 1933, when Montevideo had become a center for the Afro-Uruguayan community. This second run continued for 15 years until 1948, but issues remain extremely scarce. The impact of the journal as an advocate for racial equality and the expression of black experience cannot be overstated for intellectuals across Latin America.

*OCLC* records only one holding of *Nuestra Raza* on microform, and only through 1944. See Reid Anderson, *Blackness in the White Nation*, p. 216.