Bonnie Lucero, Ph.D.
B.LUCERO@tcu.edu(817) 257-4825Reed 204 (map link)
Program Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2013)
M. Phil., Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (2009)
BA, International & Regional Studies; Spanish Language & Literature, University of the Pacific (2008)
Areas of Focus
History of Cuba; History of Latin America and the Caribbean; Women and Gender; Race and Ethnicity; African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean; Law, Criminalization, and Incarceration; Men and Masculinities; Colonialism; Slavery and Emancipation; Empire and Imperialism; Military History; Electoral Politics, Anticolonial Movements; Urbanization and Urban Racial Segregation; Women's Reproduction; History of Medicine and Public Health; Food Studies; History of Agriculture and Ranching
-
Race and Reproduction in Cuba (University of Georgia Press, 2022). -
A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century (University of Alabama Press, 2019). -
Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba, 1895-1902 (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). Paperback, 2021. -
Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America, co-edited with Luz E. Huertas, and Gregory Swedberg (University of Arizona Press, 2016)
- “The African-descended contribution to Cuban Independence,” Roundtable Discussion, LASA Center Director Section Series on Indigeneity, Afro-descendants and other marginalized populations in Latin America 2021
- “Beyond La Raza Cósmica: Race and Racialization in US Latino Communities,” San Jacinto College (via Zoom) 2020
- “The Racial Politics of Military Occupation: Cuba under US Rule, 1899-1902,” University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Racism and the American Colonial Project: the Latin American Experience Initiative (via Zoom) 2020
- “Race and Reproductive Justice in the Americas,” Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX (postponed due to COVID-19)
- “Race and Generational Conflict in the Workplace,” Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement, Houston Professional Development Workshops, Houston, TX 2020
- “Reproducing Racial Hierarchy in Cuba’s Slave Society,” In the Shadows of Slavery and Colonialism: A Symposium on Intersectionality and the Law, New Orleans, LA 2019
- “A Fatal Example for Slavery: Pregnancy, Race, and Legal Status in Late Colonial Cuba,” Fridays at Newcomb Speaker Series, New Orleans, LA 2018
- “Slavery, Women’s Health, and Fertility Control in Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” Interdisciplinary Forum on Rural Health, Tuscaloosa, AL 2017
- “‘A Fatal Example for Slavery’: The Racialization of Fertility Control in Cuba’s Slave Society,” Plenary Panel Engaging Diaspora: Black Women's Experiences in Latin America at Black Women in White America, Bronxville, NY 2017
- “Panama in Historical Perspective,” Pan-American Roundtable, McAllen, TX 2017
- “La racialización de las leyes contra el aborto en la Cuba esclavista,” Gente de Color entre Esclavos, Castellón, Spain 2016
- “Whitening a Raceless Republic: Prostitution Regulation and the Displacement of a Historically-Black Community in a Cuban Port City,” Richards Civil War Era Center Emerging Scholars Workshop, State College, PA 2015
- “Historical Perspectives on U.S.-Cuba Policy,” South Texas College, Reading Committee, Weslaco, TX 2015
- Panelist, School of International Studies Alumni Career Forum, Stockton, CA 2014
- “Race and the Revolution,” Celebrando América Latina, Global Imprints, Gastonia, NC 2013
Last Updated: November 19, 2024