Cary Aileen García Yero is Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin Latin American Institute and at the Leibniz Universität Hannover Center for Atlantic and Global Studies. She is also Scholar Associate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2020. Her dissertation received Honorary Mention by the Latin American Studies Association Cuba Section, Best Dissertation Award 2022. Her work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Collection, among several other institutions. Her research interests include Afro-Latin American art, race relations in the Americas, Cuban history, Cold War history, and cultural theory. She is part of the Leibniz University Hannover’s project Arts of the Black Atlantic and the ALARI Traveling Research Seminar on Afro-Latin American Art. She has been Managing Editor of the journal Cuban Studies, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Garcia Yero is the author of several peer-reviewed articles on Afro-Latin American arts, including “To Whom It Belongs: The Aftermaths of Afrocubanismo and the Power over Lo Negro in Cuban Arts, 1938-1958” (Latin American Research Review 2022), “Racial Indeterminacy and Afro-Latin American Art” (Africanidades 2, No. 2 (2023), “Bola de Nieve: The Antiracist Strategies of an Afro-Cuban Musical Icon” New West Indian Guide 97, 1-2 (2023). Her book project, Colors of Dissent: Race, Nation and the Arts in Cuba, 1938-1963 studies the power and limitations of the arts to oppose racism in Latin American societies shaped by ideologies of racial harmony. For further information, see http://www.garciayero.com/