A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes within the examine of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, legislation, artwork, and Atlantic historical past have been printed in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, German, and French. He’s the writer of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge College Press, 2020, coauthored with Ariela J. Gross), Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (College of North Carolina Press, 2008), and of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (College of North Carolina Press, 2001), printed in Spanish as Una nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900-2000 (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2001), winner of the Southern Historic Affiliation’s 2003 prize for “greatest guide in Latin American historical past.” He’s the coeditor, with George Reid Andrews, of Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge College Press, 2018, accessible in Spanish and Portuguese) and of the “Afro-Latin America” guide sequence, Cambridge College Press.
Professor de la Fuente can also be the curator of three artwork displays coping with problems with race and the writer or editor of their corresponding volumes: Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art (Havana-Pittsburgh-New York Metropolis-Cambridge, Ma, 2010-12); Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba (Santiago de Cuba-Havana-New York Metropolis-Cambridge, Ma-San Francisco-Philadelphia-Chicago, 2013-16) and Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present (Cambridge, Ma-Miami, ongoing).
Professor de la Fuente is the founding Director of the Afro-Latin American Analysis Institute on the Hutchins Middle for African & African American Analysis and the school Chair of the Cuba Studies Program, DRCLAS. He’s additionally the Senior Editor of the journal Cuban Research.
