Alejandro de la Fuente

Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. He is the director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, he is the author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: The Law of Race and Freedom in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (coauthored with Ariela J. Gross, forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2019); Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (Cooper Gallery and Harvard University Press, 2017); Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2008); and of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). De la Fuente has also worked on Afro-Cuban art and who has recently written an essay outlining the initial contours of the Afro-Latin American art field. He is also the curator of several art exhibits dealing with issues of race and racism in Cuba. This includes: Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (2017-2019); Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba, (2013-2016); and Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art, (2010-2012).