#  Alejandro de la Fuente 

Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard University

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History

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 **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*](https://coopergallery.fas.harvard.edu/diago-pasts-afro-cuban-present) (2017-2019); [*Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba*](http://www.queloides-exhibit.com/grupo-antillano/), (2013-2016); and [*Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art*](http://www.queloides-exhibit.com/), (2010-2012).