Miriam Jiménez Román

Miriam Jiménez Román (June 11, 1951 – August 6, 2020) was a Puerto Rican scholar, activist, and author on Afro-Latino culture, whose work is described as "without a doubt ... [making] an enormous contribution to the theoretical discussion surrounding Latinidad in the United States."[1] Her work on Afro-Latinidad was foundational to the field of cultural studies in that she developed programming, research, and spaces for the various Afro-Latino communities in the United States.[2]

Biography

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First, we're not in a post racial state. Race is still a very important part of how all of us – globally – live our lives. African-Americans and Latinos need to get together, create change that will benefit not just Latinos and African-Americans but all people of color.

Miriam Jiménez Román, Los Afro-Latinos Q&A with Miriam Jiménez Román, March 2012[3]

Jiménez Román was born on June 11, 1951, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Miriam graduated from Manhattan's High School of Art and Design in 1969,[4] She was a visiting scholar in Africana Studies at New York University.[5] Along with her husband,[6] Juan Flores, she was co-editor of the Afro-Latin@ Studies Reader: History and Culture in the United States, a collection of essays, short stories, poetry, memoirs, interviews and writing on the Afro-Latino experience.[7] The work was described as "a corrective text that helps fill in crucial scholarly gaps" in a field, Afro-Latina/o studies, in which there is very little scholarship.[8] It "makes accessible ... a virtually ignored set of important contributions ... to the study of Afro-Latina/os", and, "makes a critical intervention in scholarship and public discourse about racial identities and the history and culture of U.S. Afro-Latina/o communities."[9] Jiménez Román and Flores received an American Book Award for The Afro-Latin@Reader in 2011.[10]

Her other publications included "Un hombre (negro) del pueblo: José Celso Barbosa and the Puerto Rican Race Towards Whiteness",[11] "Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea?",[12] and "Triple-Consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States."[13]

She was executive director of the Afrolatin@ Forum from 2011 to 2020.[14][15] She was also a member of the Black Latinas Know Collective[16] and a member of the advisory board for the Encyclopedia Africana.[17]

She was profiled on Remezcla as the first of "8 Afro Latinos Who Made Important Contributions to US History",[18] by Mitú as an "Afro-Latino Figure Who Changed The World For The Good",[19] and by Latina as one of "6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World!".[20]

Miriam Jiménez Román died of cancer at age 69 on August 6, 2020, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Angola, Valerie (August 10, 2020). "Remembering Miriam Jiménez Román, Pioneer Researcher of Gender & Race". Remezcla. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. ^ Taladrid, Stephania (2021-03-20). "The Scholar Who Chronicled the Afro-Latino Experience". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-09-21.
  3. ^ "Q&A with Miriam Jiménez Román". Los Afro-Latinos. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  4. ^ Congress, The Library of. "Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
  5. ^ "Book Launch and Celebration: Latinos in New York". Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  6. ^ Vitello, Paul (9 December 2014). "Juan Flores, a Scholar of Puerto Rican Culture in New York, Dies at 71". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Jiménez Román, Miriam; Flores, Juan (July 2010). "The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States". Duke University Press. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  8. ^ Hurt, Erin; Pollard, Cherise A. (2013). "Review: The Afro-Latin@Reader: History and Culture in the United States by Miriam Jiménez Román, Juan Flores". MELUS. 38 (1): 171–173. doi:10.1093/melus/mls011. JSTOR 42001211.
  9. ^ Rivera, Petra R (2011). "Triple Consciousness". Transition (105): 156–163. doi:10.2979/transition.105.156. JSTOR 10.2979/transition.105.156.
  10. ^ "Press Release Aug. 9, 2011 - 2011 American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  11. ^ Jiménez Román, Miriam. "Un hombre (negro) del pueblo: José Celso Barbosa and the Puerto Rican Race Towards Whiteness." Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Volume 8, 1996.
  12. ^ Jiménez Román, Miriam. "Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea?" Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora 8, no. 1 (Winter, 2005): 65-79. ProQuest 200320234.
  13. ^ Flores, Juan; Román, Miriam Jiménez (2009). "Triple-Consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States". Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 4 (3): 319–328. doi:10.1080/17442220903331662. S2CID 144948747.
  14. ^ "Leadership". afrolatin@forum. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  15. ^ Jiménez Román, Miriam. "Miriam Jimenez Roman Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  16. ^ "Miriam Jiménez Román". BLKC. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  17. ^ "Advisory Board". Oxford African American Studies Center. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  18. ^ Wright, Jenay. "8 Afro Latinos Who Made Important Contributions to US History". Remezcla. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  19. ^ danielli (12 February 2019). "Afro-Latino Figures Who Changed The World For The Good". Mitú. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  20. ^ Ocaña Perez, Damarys (2 February 2012). "6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World!". Latina. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  21. ^ "Miriam E. Jiménez Román (1951–2020) | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
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