Background
Fuente, Alejandro De La was born on January 20, 1963 in Havana, Cuba. Son of Jose De La Fuente and Sara Garcia.
(After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain...)
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jos(c) Mart described it. But di...
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(Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a ve...)
Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.
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(After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain...)
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.
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Fuente, Alejandro De La was born on January 20, 1963 in Havana, Cuba. Son of Jose De La Fuente and Sara Garcia.
Degree in Law, University Havana, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 6, 1996.
Director graduate studies University Pittsburgh, since 2004, senior editor, HAHR, since 2007. Coordinator Research Group, Attorney General Cuba, Havana, 1987—1988.
(After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain...)
(After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain...)
(Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a ve...)
Member of Institute Cuban Studies, CLAH (Lydia Cabrera award), LASA, American Heart Association.
Married Patricia Gonzalez, September 8, 1986.