University of Pittsburgh: Department of History

Alejandro de la Fuente

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3509 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-648-7468
Email: fuente2@pitt.edu

Education

1996 Ph.D. History,University of Pittsburgh

1996 Graduate Certificate, Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, CLAS

1985 Licenciado Law, University of Havana

Professional Employment

Associate Professor, Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh

2000-2002 Assistant Professor, Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh

1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Latin American History, University of South Florida, Tampa

1987-1992 Instructor of History, University of Havana, Law School

1987-1992 Researcher, Institute of Cuban History, Havana

1987 Research Coordinator, Research Group, Attorney General of Cuba
1985-1987 Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Havana

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Modern Latin American History

Social Revolutions in Latin America

History of the Caribbean

History of Cuba

Graduate

Pre-Modern Slavery: the Making of the Atlantic Slave System
http://www.pitt.edu/~bvenarde/ps.html

Afro-Americas I: Comparative Slavery

Afro-Americas II: Comparative Race Relations

Writing Workshop for Historians

Honors, Prizes and Fellowships

Post-doctoral

2004 Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar, the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

2003 Book prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for best book in Latin American history, for A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (UNC Press, 2001).

2002-03 National Science Foundation, Program of Law and Social Science, Research Grant. Project Title: Slavery, Law, and Claims-Making in Cuba.

2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. Project: Slavery in Colonial Cuba

2001 Faculty Research Grant, FAS, University of Pittsburgh

2000 Social Science Research Council, grant to organize meeting with Cuban scholars.

1999 Ford Foundation Grant to organize the annual conference of the Institute of Cuban Studies entitled: "Race and Ideology in Cuba."

1999 Christopher Reynolds Foundation Grant to conduct a Seminar on "Race, Citizenship and Nationality in Cuba," in Cienfuegos, Cuba. This seminar included participation of U.S. and Cuban graduate students and faculty.

1999 Grant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, for the same seminar mentioned above.

1999 Post-doctoral Research Grant, United States Institute of Peace

1998 Presidential Young Faculty Award, University of South Florida

1998 Grant for Research and Writing, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

1998 Outstanding Research Mentor Award, Ronald McNair Program, USF

1997 Faculty Development Grant, University of South Florida.

1996 Rockefeller Fellowship on Humanities, University of Florida.

Pre-doctoral

1995 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

1995 Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.

1994 Peace Scholar Award, United States Institute of Peace.

1994 Institute for the Study of World Politics Research Grant.

1994 Latin American and Caribbean Program Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (declined).

1993 John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship, Brown University.

1993 Tinker Fellowship, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, for research in Mexico.

1993 Award, Outstanding Research Paper, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

1992-93 Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh.

1992 Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, Avances de Investigación
Canarias-América, for research on colonial trade.

1991 Beca "Quinto Centenario del Descubrimiento de América," Banco de España, for research on Latin American colonial history.

1990 "Sánchez-Albornoz" Foundation fellowship for historical demography studies at the Center for Historical Studies (Avila, Spain).

1989 Research Grant, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano, for research in Spain.

Publications

Books

2001
A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Spanish translation: Una nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900-2000. Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2001.

2004
Editor, “Su único derecho”: los esclavos y la ley [Their Only Right: Slaves and the Law] Special issue of journal Debate y Perspectivas 4 (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera).

Articles and Book Chapters

2004
"Sugar and Slavery in Early Cuba," in Stuart Schwartz, ed. Tropical
Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World before the 'Sugar Revolution' (forthcoming, UNC Press).

"Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited," Law and History Review 22:2 (Summer), 339-69. This is the main piece in the "Forum: Old Observations, New Interpretations: What can Frank Tannenbaum Still Teach Us About the Law of Slavery?" which also includes my "Slavery and the Law: A Reply," 383-87.

2002
"¿En los márgenes de la nación? El caso del Realengo 18," Olga Portuondo and Michael Zeuske, eds. Ciudadanos en la nación. Santiago de Cuba: Oficina del Historiador, pp. 222-32.

2001
"'Antídotos de Wall Street': Raza y racismo en las relaciones entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos," Rafael Hernández and John H.Coatsworth, eds. Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos. Havana: Centro Juan Marinello, pp. 243-61.

"The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba," NACLA Report on the Americas 34:6 (May-June), 29-34. Germantranslation:"Farbenblind: Die Wiederkehr des Rassismus auf Kuba," Marta Backes et al. eds, Im Handgepäck Rassismus: Beiträge zu Tourismus und Kultur. Freiburg: Fern Weh, 2002, pp. 163-74.

"La 'raza' y los silencios de la cubanidad," Encuentro (Madrid) 20 (Spring), 107-18
Italian translation (of a modified and updated version): “La ‘razza’ e i silenzi della cubanitá,” Limes: Revista Italiana di Geopolitica 4 (2004).

2000
"Race, Ideology, and Culture in Cuba: Recent Scholarship," Latin American Research Review 35:3 (Fall), 199-210.

1999
"Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912," Latin American Research Review 34:3 (Fall), 39-73. Spanish translation: "Mitos de 'democracia racial': Cuba, 1900-1912," in Espacios, silencios y los sentidos de la libertad. Fernando Martínez, Rebecca J. Scott, and Orlando García, eds. Havana: Unión, 2001, pp. 235-69.

1998
Editor (with Laurence Glasco): "Raza y desigualdad en Cuba" [Race and Inequality in Cuba], Special Issue of América Negra no.15 (December).

"Raza, desigualdad y prejuicio en Cuba," América Negra 15 (December), 21-39.

"Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's 'Special Period'," Georgetown University Cuba Briefing Paper Series, no.18 (July). [Available also at http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/clas/Caribe/cbps.htm].
Reproduced in: Socialism and Democracy 15:1 (Spring-Summer 2001), 65-91.

"Latin American Law," in A Historical Guide to World Slavery, Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press), 253-55.

"Race, National Discourse, and Politics in Cuba: An Overview," Latin American Perspectives 25:3 (May), 43-69.

1997
"Are Blacks 'Getting Out of Control'? Racial Attitudes, Revolution, and Political Transition in Cuba," in Toward a New Cuba? Legacies of a Revolution, Miguel A. Centeno and Mauricio Font, eds., (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers), 53-71 (co-authored with Laurence Glasco).

"Two Dangers, One Solution: Immigration, Race, and Labor in Cuba, 1900-1930," International Labor and Working-Class History 51:30-49. German translation:Michael Zeuske, editor, Nach der Sklaverei (Leipzig, 1997), pp. 99-122. Reissued as "Immigration and Race in Cuba," in Vincent C. Peloso, ed. Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003, pp. 1-23.

1996
"Negros y electores: desigualdad y políticas raciales en Cuba, 1900-1930," in La nación soñada, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, Doce Calles), 163-77.

"Havana and the Fleet System: Trade and Growth in the Periphery of the Spanish Empire, 1550-1610," Colonial Latin American Review, 5:1: 95-115 (co-authored with César G. del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias).

1995
"Race and Inequality in Cuba, 1899-1981," Journal of Contemporary History, 30:1: 131-67. Portuguese translation: "Raç a e desigualdade em Cuba (1899-1981)," Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Rio de Janeiro, 27: 7-43.

1994
"El surgimiento de la sociedad criolla de Cuba (1553-1608)," and "La organización de la sociedad criolla (1608-1699)," in Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Historia de Cuba. La Colonia, evolución socioeconómica y formación nacional (Havana: Editora Política): 107-38, 139-79 (co-authored with Arturo Sorhegui).

1993
"Población y crecimiento en Cuba, siglos XVI y XVII: un estudio regional," European Review for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Amsterdam, 55 (Dec.): 59-93.

1991
"Los ingenios de azúcar en la Habana del siglo XVII (1640-1700): estructura y mano de obra," Revista de Historia Económica, Madrid, IX, 1: 35-67.

"¿Decadencia o crecimiento? Población y economía en Cuba, 1530-1700," in Las raíces históricas del pueblo cubano (I), Consuelo Naranjo Orovio and Miguel A. Puig-Samper, eds. (Madrid: Arbor): 11-38.

1990
"Esclavos africanos en La Habana: zonas de procedencia y denominaciones étnicas, 1570-1699," Revista Española de Antropología Americana, Madrid, 20: 135-60.

"A alforría de escravos em Havana, 1601-1610: primeiras conclusões," Estudos Econômicos, São Paulo, 20, 1, (Jan.-April): 139-59.

"La inmigración libre en La Habana, 1585-1645: un estudio de sus áreas de procedencia," Rábida Huelva, Spain, 8: 68-82 (co-authored with Leandro Romero).

"Los matrimonios esclavos en La Habana: 1585-1645," Iberoamerikanisches Archiv, Berlin, 16.4: 507-28.

"El mercado esclavista habanero, 1580-1699: las armazones de
esclavos," Revista de Indias, Madrid, 50:189 (May-Aug): 371-395.

"Indices de morbilidad e incidencia de enfermedades entre los esclavos en La Habana, 1580-1699," Revista cubana de salud pública, Havana, 16:1: 101-17. Reproduced in: Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Madrid, 43:2 (1991): 7-22.

1989
"Introducción a la cultura en Cuba en los siglos XVI y XVII. Elementos para un nuevo enfoque,"Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí",Havana, 2: 5-33 (co-authored with César García del Pino).

1988
"Rebeldía esclava y represión esclavista. Cuba: siglos XVI y XVII,"
Alcance a la Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí", Havana, 2, 2: 3-34.

"Azúcar y esclavitud en Cuba, siglo XVII," Boletín del Archivo Nacional, Havana, 2: 15-33.

"Apuntes sobre la historiografía de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI cubano," Santiago. Revista de la Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, 71 (Dec.): 59-118 (co-authored with César García del Pino).

1986
"Denominaciones étnicas de los esclavos introducidos en Cuba. Siglos XVI y XVII," Anales del Caribe, Havana, 6:75-96.

"Introducción al estudio de la trata en Cuba. Siglos XVI y XVII," Santiago. Revista de la Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, 61(March): 155-208.

Other Publications

2005
"Un debate necesario: raza y cubanidad," La Gaceta de Cuba Havana (Jan.-Feb.), 62-64.

2005
"Todos los caminos conducen a Pittsburgh o ‘El agente Carmelo’," Encuentro Madrid 34/35, 35-39

2002
"La primera república cubana,"El Nuevo Herald (May 20). Reproduced in Revista Desafíos 9:46 (Caracas, April-June) and La Nueva Cuba (Miami, June 14).

"Obituary: Manuel Moreno Fraginals,"Hispanic American Historical Review 82:1 (February), 121-24.

2001
"In Memoriam: Manuel Moreno Fraginals,"Perspectives 39(7) (October), 46-47.

"El legado de Moreno Fraginals,"El Nuevo Herald (May 21)

"La raza y la formación de la nación cubana,"El Nuevo Herald (May 20).

2000
"Cuba: Background to a Revolution,"Social Education (March), 88-92.

1999
"Teaching History in Cuba,"LASA Forum (Fall 1999), 12-13.

"Silence, Race, and the 'Special Period': An Update,"Cuban Affairs (Spring-Summer), 3, 13.

1998
"Race and Revolution in Cuba," Inquiry 1:1 (Spring), 2-3.

1995
"Cuba y su problema racial,"El Nuevo Herald (September 15).

"Between Heroes and Traitors: Confessions of a 'Red Worm'," Cuban Affairs 11:1 (Spring).

1990
"Uso, disfrute y abuso de Clío."La Gaceta de Cuba, Havana (February), 6-8.

1989
"Los siglos olvidados," Granma (October 20).

1987
"Oficios, artesanía y esclavitud," Revolución y Cultura 9 (September), 8-11.

Book reviews in:
Boletín del Archivo Nacional (1988) Cuban Studies (1993, 2004) Hispanic American Historical Review (1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004), Encuentro de la cultura cubana (2001), International Labor and Working Class History (1997), Journal of Latin American Studies (2002), and Journal of Social History (2003).

Other Professional Activities

1994-1998 Book Review Editor, Cuban Studies

1995-- Referee for New West Indian Guide, Cuban Studies, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico), Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Historical Review, Gender and History, Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of North Carolina Press, Louisiana State University Press, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Competition for Grants for Research and Writing, 1999), and United States Institute of Peace (Peace Scholar Awards, 2000, 2002), Lydia Cabrera Awards, CLAH (2003).

1995-- Editorial Board, Collection "Antillia," Editorial Doce Calles, Madrid.

1998-2000 Editorial Board, Cuban Affairs.

1998-2000 Board of Directors, Institute of Cuban Studies, Coral Gables.

2000-- Editorial Board, Cuban Studies

2004 International advisory board, Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies

Papers or guest lectures

American Historical Association (1995, 1998, 2000), Asociación de Historiadores de América Latina y el Caribe (1991), Brown University (1993), Cambridge Group for Population History and Social Structure (1990), Caribbean Association of Cuba (1986), Caribbean Studies Association (1997), Centro de Cultura Ibero-Americana, Havana (1989), Centro Juan Marinello, Havana (1999), Colegio Mayor Nuestra Señora de Africa, Madrid (1990), CUNY (2004), Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Seville (1990), Florida International University (1997, 1999), Georgetown University (1998), Harvard University (1998), Institute of Cuban Studies, Miami (1994, 1999), Latin American Studies Association (1995, 2000, 2002), New York University (1996), Pennsylvania Sociological Society (1993), Pittsburgh Council of World Affairs (1993, 1994), Princeton University (1995, 2001), Society for Latin American Studies, Great Britain (1994), Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) (1998, 2001), Unión de Historiadores de Cuba (UNHIC) (1986, 1987), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (1990), Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1989, 1990, 1992), Universidad Santa María de la Rábida, Huelva (1992), University of Florida (1996), University of Michigan (1998), University of Southern Arkansas (1994), University of California, Los Angeles (2000, 2002), University of Cologne (2002).


Alejandro de la Fuente University of Pittsburgh Department of History 3509 Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412-648-7468 Email: fuente2@pitt.edu Education 1996 Ph.D. History,University of Pittsburgh 1996 Graduate Certificate, Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, CLAS 1985 Licenciado Law, University of Havana Professional Employment Associate Professor, Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh 2000-2002 Assistant Professor, Latin American History, University of Pittsburgh 1996-2000 Assistant Professor, Latin American History, University of South Florida, Tampa 1987-1992 Instructor of History, University of Havana, Law School 1987-1992 Researcher, Institute of Cuban History, Havana 1987 Research Coordinator, Research Group, Attorney General of Cuba 1985-1987 Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Havana Courses Taught Undergraduate Modern Latin American History Social Revolutions in Latin America History of the Caribbean History of Cuba Graduate Pre-Modern Slavery: the Making of the Atlantic Slave System http://www.pitt.edu/~bvenarde/ps.html Afro-Americas I: Comparative Slavery Afro-Americas II: Comparative Race Relations Writing Workshop for Historians Honors, Prizes and Fellowships *Post-doctoral* 2004 Delmos Jones Visiting Scholar, the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 2003 Book prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for best book in Latin American history, for A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (UNC Press, 2001). 2002-03 National Science Foundation, Program of Law and Social Science, Research Grant. Project Title: Slavery, Law, and Claims-Making in Cuba. 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. Project: Slavery in Colonial Cuba 2001 Faculty Research Grant, FAS, University of Pittsburgh 2000 Social Science Research Council, grant to organize meeting with Cuban scholars. 1999 Ford Foundation Grant to organize the annual conference of the Institute of Cuban Studies entitled: "Race and Ideology in Cuba." 1999 Christopher Reynolds Foundation Grant to conduct a Seminar on "Race, Citizenship and Nationality in Cuba," in Cienfuegos, Cuba. This seminar included participation of U.S. and Cuban graduate students and faculty. 1999 Grant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, for the same seminar mentioned above. 1999 Post-doctoral Research Grant, United States Institute of Peace 1998 Presidential Young Faculty Award, University of South Florida 1998 Grant for Research and Writing, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 1998 Outstanding Research Mentor Award, Ronald McNair Program, USF 1997 Faculty Development Grant, University of South Florida. 1996 Rockefeller Fellowship on Humanities, University of Florida. Pre-doctoral 1995 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. 1995 Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh. 1994 Peace Scholar Award, United States Institute of Peace. 1994 Institute for the Study of World Politics Research Grant. 1994 Latin American and Caribbean Program Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (declined). 1993 John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship, Brown University. 1993 Tinker Fellowship, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, for research in Mexico. 1993 Award, Outstanding Research Paper, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh. 1992-93 Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh. 1992 Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, Avances de Investigación Canarias-América, for research on colonial trade. 1991 Beca "Quinto Centenario del Descubrimiento de América," Banco de España, for research on Latin American colonial history. 1990 "Sánchez-Albornoz" Foundation fellowship for historical demography studies at the Center for Historical Studies (Avila, Spain). 1989 Research Grant, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano, for research in Spain. Publications Books 2001 A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Spanish translation: Una nación para todos: raza, desigualdad y política en Cuba, 1900-2000. Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2001. 2004 Editor, “Su único derecho”: los esclavos y la ley [Their Only Right: Slaves and the Law] Special issue of journal Debate y Perspectivas 4 (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera). Articles and Book Chapters 2004 "Sugar and Slavery in Early Cuba," in Stuart Schwartz, ed. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World before the 'Sugar Revolution' (forthcoming, UNC Press). "Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited," Law and History Review 22:2 (Summer), 339-69. This is the main piece in the "Forum: Old Observations, New Interpretations: What can Frank Tannenbaum Still Teach Us About the Law of Slavery?" which also includes my "Slavery and the Law: A Reply," 383-87. 2002 "¿En los márgenes de la nación? El caso del Realengo 18," Olga Portuondo and Michael Zeuske, eds. Ciudadanos en la nación. Santiago de Cuba: Oficina del Historiador, pp. 222-32. 2001 "'Antídotos de Wall Street': Raza y racismo en las relaciones entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos," Rafael Hernández and John H.Coatsworth, eds. Culturas encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos. Havana: Centro Juan Marinello, pp. 243-61. "The Resurgence of Racism in Cuba," NACLA Report on the Americas 34:6 (May-June), 29-34. Germantranslation:"Farbenblind: Die Wiederkehr des Rassismus auf Kuba," Marta Backes et al. eds, Im Handgepäck Rassismus: Beiträge zu Tourismus und Kultur. Freiburg: Fern Weh, 2002, pp. 163-74. "La 'raza' y los silencios de la cubanidad," Encuentro (Madrid) 20 (Spring), 107-18 Italian translation (of a modified and updated version): “La ‘razza’ e i silenzi della cubanitá,” Limes: Revista Italiana di Geopolitica 4 (2004). 2000 "Race, Ideology, and Culture in Cuba: Recent Scholarship," Latin American Research Review 35:3 (Fall), 199-210. 1999 "Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912," Latin American Research Review 34:3 (Fall), 39-73. Spanish translation: "Mitos de 'democracia racial': Cuba, 1900-1912," in Espacios, silencios y los sentidos de la libertad. Fernando Martínez, Rebecca J. Scott, and Orlando García, eds. Havana: Unión, 2001, pp. 235-69. 1998 Editor (with Laurence Glasco): "Raza y desigualdad en Cuba" [Race and Inequality in Cuba], Special Issue of América Negra no.15 (December). "Raza, desigualdad y prejuicio en Cuba," América Negra 15 (December), 21-39. "Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's 'Special Period'," Georgetown University Cuba Briefing Paper Series, no.18 (July). [Available also at http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/clas/Caribe/cbps.htm]. Reproduced in: Socialism and Democracy 15:1 (Spring-Summer 2001), 65-91. "Latin American Law," in A Historical Guide to World Slavery, Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press), 253-55. "Race, National Discourse, and Politics in Cuba: An Overview," Latin American Perspectives 25:3 (May), 43-69. 1997 "Are Blacks 'Getting Out of Control'? Racial Attitudes, Revolution, and Political Transition in Cuba," in Toward a New Cuba? Legacies of a Revolution, Miguel A. Centeno and Mauricio Font, eds., (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers), 53-71 (co-authored with Laurence Glasco). "Two Dangers, One Solution: Immigration, Race, and Labor in Cuba, 1900-1930," International Labor and Working-Class History 51:30-49. German translation:Michael Zeuske, editor, Nach der Sklaverei (Leipzig, 1997), pp. 99-122. Reissued as "Immigration and Race in Cuba," in Vincent C. Peloso, ed. Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003, pp. 1-23. 1996 "Negros y electores: desigualdad y políticas raciales en Cuba, 1900-1930," in La nación soñada, Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, Doce Calles), 163-77. "Havana and the Fleet System: Trade and Growth in the Periphery of the Spanish Empire, 1550-1610," Colonial Latin American Review, 5:1: 95-115 (co-authored with César G. del Pino and Bernardo Iglesias). 1995 "Race and Inequality in Cuba, 1899-1981," Journal of Contemporary History, 30:1: 131-67. Portuguese translation: "Raç a e desigualdade em Cuba (1899-1981)," Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Rio de Janeiro, 27: 7-43. 1994 "El surgimiento de la sociedad criolla de Cuba (1553-1608)," and "La organización de la sociedad criolla (1608-1699)," in Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Historia de Cuba. La Colonia, evolución socioeconómica y formación nacional (Havana: Editora Política): 107-38, 139-79 (co-authored with Arturo Sorhegui). 1993 "Población y crecimiento en Cuba, siglos XVI y XVII: un estudio regional," European Review for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Amsterdam, 55 (Dec.): 59-93. 1991 "Los ingenios de azúcar en la Habana del siglo XVII (1640-1700): estructura y mano de obra," Revista de Historia Económica, Madrid, IX, 1: 35-67. "¿Decadencia o crecimiento? Población y economía en Cuba, 1530-1700," in Las raíces históricas del pueblo cubano (I), Consuelo Naranjo Orovio and Miguel A. Puig-Samper, eds. (Madrid: Arbor): 11-38. 1990 "Esclavos africanos en La Habana: zonas de procedencia y denominaciones étnicas, 1570-1699," Revista Española de Antropología Americana, Madrid, 20: 135-60. "A alforría de escravos em Havana, 1601-1610: primeiras conclusões," Estudos Econômicos, São Paulo, 20, 1, (Jan.-April): 139-59. "La inmigración libre en La Habana, 1585-1645: un estudio de sus áreas de procedencia," Rábida Huelva, Spain, 8: 68-82 (co-authored with Leandro Romero). "Los matrimonios esclavos en La Habana: 1585-1645," Iberoamerikanisches Archiv, Berlin, 16.4: 507-28. "El mercado esclavista habanero, 1580-1699: las armazones de esclavos," Revista de Indias, Madrid, 50:189 (May-Aug): 371-395. "Indices de morbilidad e incidencia de enfermedades entre los esclavos en La Habana, 1580-1699," Revista cubana de salud pública, Havana, 16:1: 101-17. Reproduced in: Asclepio. Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Madrid, 43:2 (1991): 7-22. 1989 "Introducción a la cultura en Cuba en los siglos XVI y XVII. Elementos para un nuevo enfoque,"Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí",Havana, 2: 5-33 (co-authored with César García del Pino). 1988 "Rebeldía esclava y represión esclavista. Cuba: siglos XVI y XVII," Alcance a la Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí", Havana, 2, 2: 3-34. "Azúcar y esclavitud en Cuba, siglo XVII," Boletín del Archivo Nacional, Havana, 2: 15-33. "Apuntes sobre la historiografía de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI cubano," Santiago. Revista de la Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, 71 (Dec.): 59-118 (co-authored with César García del Pino). 1986 "Denominaciones étnicas de los esclavos introducidos en Cuba. Siglos XVI y XVII," Anales del Caribe, Havana, 6:75-96. "Introducción al estudio de la trata en Cuba. Siglos XVI y XVII," Santiago. Revista de la Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, 61(March): 155-208. *Other Publications* 2005 "Un debate necesario: raza y cubanidad," La Gaceta de Cuba Havana (Jan.-Feb.), 62-64. 2005 "Todos los caminos conducen a Pittsburgh o ‘El agente Carmelo’," Encuentro Madrid 34/35, 35-39 2002 "La primera república cubana,"El Nuevo Herald (May 20). Reproduced in Revista Desafíos 9:46 (Caracas, April-June) and La Nueva Cuba (Miami, June 14). "Obituary: Manuel Moreno Fraginals,"Hispanic American Historical Review 82:1 (February), 121-24. 2001 "In Memoriam: Manuel Moreno Fraginals,"Perspectives 39(7) (October), 46-47. "El legado de Moreno Fraginals,"El Nuevo Herald (May 21) "La raza y la formación de la nación cubana,"El Nuevo Herald (May 20). 2000 "Cuba: Background to a Revolution,"Social Education (March), 88-92. 1999 "Teaching History in Cuba,"LASA Forum (Fall 1999), 12-13. "Silence, Race, and the 'Special Period': An Update,"Cuban Affairs (Spring-Summer), 3, 13. 1998 "Race and Revolution in Cuba," Inquiry 1:1 (Spring), 2-3. 1995 "Cuba y su problema racial,"El Nuevo Herald (September 15). "Between Heroes and Traitors: Confessions of a 'Red Worm'," Cuban Affairs 11:1 (Spring). 1990 "Uso, disfrute y abuso de Clío."La Gaceta de Cuba, Havana (February), 6-8. 1989 "Los siglos olvidados," Granma (October 20). 1987 "Oficios, artesanía y esclavitud," Revolución y Cultura 9 (September), 8-11. *Book reviews in: Boletín del Archivo Nacional (1988) Cuban Studies (1993, 2004) Hispanic American Historical Review (1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2004), Encuentro de la cultura cubana (2001), International Labor and Working Class History (1997), Journal of Latin American Studies (2002), and Journal of Social History (2003). Other Professional Activities* 1994-1998 Book Review Editor, Cuban Studies 1995-- Referee for New West Indian Guide, Cuban Studies, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico), Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Historical Review, Gender and History, Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, University of North Carolina Press, Louisiana State University Press, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Competition for Grants for Research and Writing, 1999), and United States Institute of Peace (Peace Scholar Awards, 2000, 2002), Lydia Cabrera Awards, CLAH (2003). 1995-- Editorial Board, Collection "Antillia," Editorial Doce Calles, Madrid. 1998-2000 Editorial Board, Cuban Affairs. 1998-2000 Board of Directors, Institute of Cuban Studies, Coral Gables. 2000-- Editorial Board, Cuban Studies 2004 International advisory board, Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies Papers or guest lectures American Historical Association (1995, 1998, 2000), Asociación de Historiadores de América Latina y el Caribe (1991), Brown University (1993), Cambridge Group for Population History and Social Structure (1990), Caribbean Association of Cuba (1986), Caribbean Studies Association (1997), Centro de Cultura Ibero-Americana, Havana (1989), Centro Juan Marinello, Havana (1999), Colegio Mayor Nuestra Señora de Africa, Madrid (1990), CUNY (2004), Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Seville (1990), Florida International University (1997, 1999), Georgetown University (1998), Harvard University (1998), Institute of Cuban Studies, Miami (1994, 1999), Latin American Studies Association (1995, 2000, 2002), New York University (1996), Pennsylvania Sociological Society (1993), Pittsburgh Council of World Affairs (1993, 1994), Princeton University (1995, 2001), Society for Latin American Studies, Great Britain (1994), Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) (1998, 2001), Unión de Historiadores de Cuba (UNHIC) (1986, 1987), Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (1990), Universidad Complutense, Madrid (1989, 1990, 1992), Universidad Santa María de la Rábida, Huelva (1992), University of Florida (1996), University of Michigan (1998), University of Southern Arkansas (1994), University of California, Los Angeles (2000, 2002), University of Cologne (2002).