New Book Presentation: My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Arts

My Own Past: Afrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2025) centers the artistic production and social worlds of artists of African descent in Cuba since the colonial period, offering a revisionist history of Cuban art that explores the gendered racial logics that have informed the constitution of the national canon. The book traces how ideologues of the slaveholding planter class institutionalized the association between ‘fine arts’ and key attributes of whiteness, and it examines how this association continues to shape art historical narratives in Cuba.

Part of Faculty Colloquium event series.

Cary Aileen García Yero is a Cuban-Canadian historian of Latin American arts and culture. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2020. Her dissertation received Honorary Mention by the Latin American Studies Association Cuba Section in 2022, as well as the Claster Mamolen Dissertation Award by Harvard University's Afro-Latin American Research Institute. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals such as the Latin American Research Review, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, the Anuario de Historia de América Latina, Cuban Studies, among others.

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Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Bard College Berlin, P24, Seminar Room 8

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