University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies

Since the creation of the Afro-Latin AmericanResearch Institute (ALARI) at Harvard University in 2013, a group of institutions and research groups across the Americas have been working together to consolidate the field of Afro-Latin American Studies. Our main goal is to transform higher education across the Americas, institutionalizing an academic field that centers the experiences of Africans and their descendants and prepares a new generation of educators to produce the antiracist cultural shift toward equity and inclusion that we need. With support of Ford Foundation, the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies is the embodiment of collaborative networks that we can now deploy to institutionalize the field of Afro-Latin American Studies, transforming it into an engine for racial justice and inclusion.