Please join us for a Graduate seminar with this year's Gerszten Family Visiting Professor Alejandro de la Fuente.
Tuesday, February 6
New Cabell Hall 504
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
The seminar will feature a discussion of the book Becoming Free, Becoming Black. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Please RSVP to Carlos Velazco Fernández (bey6yh@virginia.edu) and Allison Bigelow (amb8fk@virginia.edu) by Thursday 2/1.
Alejandro de la Fuente is Professor of History and Economics and Director of the Afro-Latin Research Institute at Harvard University. A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Professor de la Fuente’s works on race, slavery, law, art, and Atlantic history have been published in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, German, and French. He is the author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge University Press, 2020, coauthored with Ariela J. Gross), 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), published in Spanish as Una nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900-2000 (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2001), winner of the Southern Historical Association's 2003 prize for “best book in Latin American history.”