Alejandro de la Fuente is an academic and art curator. He is the

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Professor of

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and

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, Professor of African and African American Studies and of

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. He is also Director of Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the

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at Harvard. His research focuses on specializes in the study of comparative study of slavery and race relations. 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) and ''Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts and Miami, ongoing).

Works

Books

*''A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba'' (

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, 2001); 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) * ''Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana'' with Ariela J. Gross (

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, 2020)

Exhibit catalogues

* ''Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art'' (

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, 2011) * ''Grupo Antillano: The Art of Afro-Cuba '' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) *''The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present'' (

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, 2017)

References

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