Roberto Zurbano from Havana, Cuba is an essayist, editor and cultural critic specializing in literature, race and alternative music. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), the Association of Latin American Studies (LASA) and the executive committee of the Regional Articulation of Afro-descendants of Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAC). He is the author of the books Elogio del lector; Los Estados Nacientes: Literatura Cubana y postmodernidad and La poética de los 90 and articles such as El triangle invisible del siglo 20 cubano: Raza, literatura y nacional; El rap cubano: Discursos hambrientos de realidad and Cuba: Doce problemas para frente los (neo)racisms.