Explore Academic Positions at Harvard Charles Warren Center Fellowship Bookmark this Posting Print Preview | Apply for this Job Position Details Title Charles Warren Center Fellowship School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area Charles Warren Center Position Description The 2027-28 Warren Center Faculty Fellowship will be on the theme of Afrolatinidades in Transnational Perspective led by Jesse
Hoffnung-Garskof (Harvard History) and Yanilda Gonzalez (Harvard Kennedy School). From its origins in the comparative study of slavery and of “race relations” in the decades after World War II, the comparative study of race, politics, and mobilization in the Americas has blossomed as it has abandoned initial hypotheses around the lesser severity of slavery in Latin America and the supposed lack of racial
discrimination in that region. The burgeoning of the field of Afro-Latin American Studies and the move, in the United States, away from the study of race relations towards the study of racial formation, has allowed for a more robust comparative conversation about the local expressions of racial identity and racial politics. No longer strictly comparative, the field of comparative race in the Americas increasingly
attends to diasporic interplay—the sharing of ideas, cultures, and strategies— among Afrodescendant populations in varied local and national contexts. Perhaps no social process provides a clearer window onto this interplay, and its dissonances, than the invention of new forms of Afro-Latinidad generated by the mobility of Afrodescendant people, moving between the English- and French-speaking parts of the Americas to
Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions and between Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions and the United States.Meanwhile, the study of Latinidad in the United States has evolved complexly from its origins in the labor activism of the middle 20th century and the Chicano and Puerto Rican campus movements of the early 1970s. In part, the field has grown larger and more varied to reflect the dramatic growth and
increasing diversity of Latin American origin populations in the United States. As the idea that there exists a single, relatively uniform, Hispanic group became useful, government agencies, marketing companies, and some national advocacy groups invested in more social scientific research on that group. The interdisciplinary ethnic studies traditions on campuses evolved towards pan-ethnicity, seeking strength in
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