Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University

Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University ALARI at Harvard University promotes research on the history and culture of peoples of African desce

The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University is the first research institution in the United States devoted to the history and culture of peoples of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Over 90 percent of the Africans forcibly imported into the Americas went to Latin America and the Caribbean, half of them to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Many Hispanics in

the United States are also of African descent. Cultural forms and community practices associated with Africa are conspicuous across the region - indeed, the very existence of Latin America would be unthinkable without them. During the last few decades, Afro-Latin Americans have created numerous civic, cultural, and community organizations to demand recognition, equality and resources, prompting legislative action and the implementation of compensatory policies. The Afro-Latin American Research Institute stimulates and sponsors scholarship on the Afro-Latin American experience and provides a forum where scholars, intellectuals, activists and policy makers engage in exchanges and debates.

05/19/2026
Boletín de ALARI April 2026 -
04/30/2026

Boletín de ALARI April 2026 -

Colombia’s history-making VP blames racism for four years of frustration Francia Márquez, the country’s first Black vice-president, opens up about the strains in her relationship with the president and the obstacles she has faced: ‘The Colombian state is a racist state’  

Parry Lecture with Larissa Brewer-García (University of Chicago)“The Contested Exemplarity of Black Upward Mobility in C...
04/01/2026

Parry Lecture with Larissa Brewer-García (University of Chicago)
“The Contested Exemplarity of Black Upward Mobility in Colonial Peru”

🗓 April 2, 2026
🕓 4:30–6:00 PM
📍 Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Boletín de ALARI March 2026 -
04/01/2026

Boletín de ALARI March 2026 -

Within the framework of the CELAC–Africa High-Level Forum, held in Bogotá from March 18–21 under the auspices of Colombia’s Vice President Francia Elena Márquez Mina, the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University (ALARI) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and th...

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