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Tag: Alejandro de la Fuente
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Nation & World
New day for Afro-Latin American Studies
The University Consortium for Afro-Latin American Studies will bring together researchers from Global North and Global South, something that has never been done before.
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Nation & World
Rethinking Cuban art
The new exhibition hopes to revolutionize how Cuban art is considered through the inclusion of artists of African descent who were usually excluded from shows.
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Nation & World
Agassiz’s other photographs tell a global tale of scientific racism
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by…
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Nation & World
Hard lessons from a tough election
The Gazette asked scholars and analysts across the University to reflect on lessons learned in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
A reading list on issues of race
Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.
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Nation & World
A minority turns on the light
In an interview, Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, talks about his organization and the emerging Afro-Latin American social movement.
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Nation & World
A renewed Harvard-Cuba connection
Representatives from Harvard University traveled to Havana last weekend to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education. The agreement signals renewed commitment between Harvard’s 12 Schools and the ministry to support faculty and student research and study in Cuba.
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Nation & World
A transition for Transition
Transition, a magazine published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has been published in Africa for the first time in nearly three decades.
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Nation & World
Shadows of Cuba’s past
An exhibit by Cuban mixed-media artist Juan Roberto Diago at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery folds history into imagery.
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Nation & World
Variations on racial tension
Weatherhead Center panelists highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality.
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Nation & World
Tangled roots
The story of “Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba” is one of discovery and rediscovery. For the 30 artists represented, it illustrates the uncovering of an artistic heritage, and a lineage that was long denied. As part of “Drapetomania,” the Cooper Gallery is also presenting a Cuban film series, with screenings on Thursdays…
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Nation & World
In a land of equality, racism
“Queloides,” an art exhibit visiting Harvard, shows how racial stereotypes prevailed even after the Cuban Revolution.
