The Worthy of My Race

. Trans. Edith Moss Jackson
The Worthy of My Race: Social Sketches, is a bilingual edition of Jorje Miguel Fords
biographies, published in 1899. The United Nations, declaring that 2012 initiates the Decade of
the Afrodescendant, encourages the recovery of such texts. This translation broadens readership
of the biographies to English speakers, while offering the Spanish text for others desiring the
original. Fords difficult style required that the translator render the text with flexibility. Ford
selected fourteen Afro-Argentine men as motivational icons for contemporary Afro-Argentine
youths who, like the massive waves of European immigrants, were unaware of the
Afrodescendants crucial contributions to the nations construction and development.
These biographies, with original photographs, document the achievements of
Afro-Argentines that challenged the prevailing racialized ideologies of the period.