Alejandro de la Fuente is an academic and art curator. He is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History at Harvard University. He is also Director of Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard.[1] His research focuses on specializes in the study of comparative study of slavery and race relations.[1]
De la Fuente has curated several exhibits on race, serving as the author or editor of the corresponding publication: Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (shown in 2010 to 2012 in Havana, Pittsburgh, New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts); Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba (2013 to 2016 in Santiago de Cuba-Havana-New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Chicago)[2] and Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (Cambridge, Massachusetts and Miami, ongoing).[3][1]
Works
editBooks
edit- A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (University of North Carolina Press, 2001);[4][5] in Spanish, Una nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900-2000 (Editorial Colibrí, 2001)
- Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)[6][7][8]
- Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana with Ariela J. Gross (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Exhibit catalogues
edit- Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011)
- Grupo Antillano: The Art of Afro-Cuba (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013)
- The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (Harvard University Press, 2017)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Alejandro de la Fuente". aaas.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ Bronfman, Alejandra (2014-05-01). "Grupo Antillano: The Art of Afro-Cuba". Hispanic American Historical Review. 94 (2): 337–338. doi:10.1215/00182168-2641478. ISSN 0018-2168.
- ^ Moreno, Gean (2020). "Juan Roberto Diago". Art in America. 108 (1): 83. ISSN 0004-3214. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ Helg, Aline (2002-05-01). "A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (review)". Hispanic American Historical Review. 82 (2): 386–388. doi:10.1215/00182168-82-2-386. ISSN 1527-1900. S2CID 145452158.
- ^ Ferrer, Ada (2002-12-01). "Alejandro De La Fuente. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba. (Envisioning Cuba.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 449. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95". The American Historical Review. 107 (5). doi:10.1086/ahr/107.5.1605. ISSN 0002-8762.
- ^ Geserick, Marco Cabrera (2012-09-07). "Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (review)". Cuban Studies. 42 (1): 239–242. doi:10.1353/cub.2011.0000. ISSN 1548-2464.
- ^ Salvucci, Linda K. (2010-01-08). "Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (review)". The Americas. 66 (3): 428–429. doi:10.1353/tam.0.0211. ISSN 1533-6247.
- ^ Jean, Martine (Winter 2009). "Book Review: Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth-Century by Alejandro de la Fuente". Canadian Journal of History: 578–580. doi:10.3138/cjh.44.3.578.
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