"It is striking how seamlessly Andrews integrates diverse sources into this fascinating history."
-Hispanic American Historical Review

"A valuable contribution to the broader history of the African presence in Latin America which has gathered considerable momentum in recent years."
-Latin American Review of Books

"Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay, offers a refreshingly nuanced and successful statement on the continuing importance of nation-specific analyses in the study of blackness and black history."
-H-Net Reviews

"[An] engagingly written, creative, and politically relevant study."
-Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"A fabulous read . . . . Andrews is a superb comparativist, and in his hands, the story of a small black population in a small country--far from being a curiosity or mere footnote to Afro-Latin American history--sheds new light on the specificity and contingency of patterns of racial formation and mobilization across the region."
-The Americas

"This new book written by Reid Andrews, a master historian at the height of his form, is destined to become the standard work on its topic, just as his study The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 has been for an entire generation."
-John Charles Chasteen, author of Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence

"Andrews fills a gap in the English-language and Latin American scholarship and, more importantly, he provides valuable new insights into the ways that African diasporic cultural practices have been incorporated into 'white' national identities even as people of African descent continue to suffer from inequality and discrimination."
-Nancy P. Appelbaum, The State University of New York at Binghamton