Roberto Zurbano. La plantación invisible: un tour por La Habana negra

Coloniality is imposed, in subtle ways, through many of the tourism products and services in today's Havana, without taking into consideration the ways these services reproduce excluding and discriminatory codes. This talk is an invitation to an antitouristic tour throughout an invisible Black Havana. It reveals new forms of coloniality that tourism, growing gentrification processes and the new influx of foreign capital have imposed over twenty-first-century Havana's urban and social fabric. While we look at the present moment and its new forms of coloniality, our walking throughout Old Havana is also tasked with revealing the traces of an Afro-descendant past that has been conveniently silenced. In an itinerary that departs from the Plaza de la Catedral to finally arrive at the Loma del Ángel, we let the colonial silence speak for itself, and we also allow for that which is not present but can be intuitively perceived to be visualized.