Yulexis Almeida Junco holds a PhD in Sociological Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Gender Studies and is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Havana, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Sociology, Vice-president of the gender section of the Cuban Society of Psychology. She is one of the coordinators of the CLACSO Working Group (GT): Civilizing Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism and Afro-Latin American Movements and the Cuban Afro-feminist Articulation (AAFC). She has researched and published texts on racial and gender inequalities, the intersectional paradigm, policies of access to higher education in Cuba, and Afro-feminist activism. She has held academic exchanges and has been a guest professor at universities in the Region and Europe such as El Colegio de México, Universidad de Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, Universidad de Alicante in Spain, Malmö University in Sweden, and Bielefeld University in Germany.

Publications

2023. con José Antonio Figueroa y Jochen Kemner (Coord.). (Anti)-racismo y republicanismo negro en Cuba. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

2021. Equidad y acceso a la Educación Superior en Cuba: Un permanente desafío. En: Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón, Enrique Verdecia Carballo (Comps.). Educación en Cuba, criterios y experiencias desde las ciencias sociales. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Publicaciones Acuario, Centro Félix Varela. ISBN 978-959-7226-67-3

2020. The importance of black Feminism and the theory of interseccionality in analysing the position of afrodescendants. En: International Review of Psychiatry volume 32.

2019. Educación superior, género y color de la piel. Una breve reflexión sobre la implementación de políticas de amplio acceso en el contexto cubano. Revista Cuban Studies, N0. 48. ISSN 978-0-8229

2014. Educación superior, raza y política social. Una breve reflexión desde Cuba. En: Labrea, Valeria Viana y Vommaro Pablo (Coords.). Juventud, participación y desarrollo social en América Latina y el Caribe. Organizadores Escuela Regional MOST/UNESCO, Brasilia. ISBN 978-85-85142-68-1.

2011. Género y Racialidad: Una Reflexión obligada en la Cuba de hoy. En: Daisy Rubiera Castillo, Daisy e Inés María Martiatu Terry (Comps.). Afrocubanas historia, pensamiento y prácticas culturales. La Habana. ISBN 978-959-06-1337-1.

Research project as fellow in CALAS (Tandem fellowship with Julia Roth)

Title: The pandemic as a prism: The Covid-19 crisis and multiple intersectional inequalities
in the German and Cuban context.

Summary: When the Covid 19 pandemic "exploded", it quickly became apparent that it began to function as a kind of prism through which new dimensions of the multiple systemic and structural pitfalls of inequalities and injustices became visible. It made visible the close links between neoliberal capitalist structures, colonial persistence, and gender and ethnic-racial asymmetries. The so-called inequality virus has impacted all regions of the world, this research seeks to study the Cuban and German contexts as exemplary cases of Latin America and Europe respectively.

The project focuses on intersectional inequality axes that have been reinforced under the prism of the Covid-19 pandemic. We want to investigate how the crisis is articulated with neoliberal economization and coloniality, and deepens equity gaps, especially in relation to gender and race inequalities. We are also interested in the intersectional epistemic theoretical dimension to capture the transnational, global and intercategorical crises and inequalities, which will serve to look at our contexts quite differently, but crossed by global problems, that allow us to establish common structural patterns such as the persistence of colonial racial inequalities, division of labor and chains of care and production according to gender, crisis of feminized work environments; at the same time, it will allow us to capture the specific differences of each country.
We are interested in designing an analytical model to describe multiple crises such as the pandemic in a more comprehensive way, systematize the historical contributions of the various academic, activist, and political actors to the fight against patriarchy, racism, and its consequences, and propose recommendations for the impact of the sanitary, social and economic crises from an intersectional and feminist approach focused in commonly vulnerable groups.