Miriam Jiménez Román

Miriam Jiménez Román (1951 – 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.

Biography
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[2]

Jiménez Román was born on June 11, 1951 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.[3] She was a visiting scholar in Africana Studies at New York University.[4] Along with her husband,[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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."[8] Jiménez Román and Flores received an American Book Award for The Afro-Latin@Reader in 2011.[9]

Her other publications included “Un hombre (negro) del pueblo: José Celso Barbosa and the Puerto Rican Race Towards Whiteness”,[10] "Looking at that Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea?",[11] and “Triple-Consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States."[12]

She was Executive Director of the Afrolatin@ forum from 2011 to 2020.[13][14] She was also a member of the Black Latinas Know Collective[15] and a member of the advisory board for the Encyclopedia Africana.[16]

She was profiled on Remezcla as the first of "8 Afro Latinos Who Made Important Contributions to US History",[17] by Mitú as an "Afro-Latino Figure Who Changed The World For The Good",[18] and by Latina as one of "6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World!".[19]

On August 6, 2020, Miriam E. Jiménez Román died of cancer at 69 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.[20]

References
  1. Angola, Valerie (August 10, 2020). "Remembering Miriam Jiménez Román, Pioneer Researcher of Gender & Race". Remezcla. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  2. "Q&A with Miriam Jiménez Román". Los Afro-Latinos. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  3. Library of Congress Name Authority File
  4. "Book Launch and Celebration: Latinos in New York". Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  5. Vitello, Paul (9 December 2014). "Juan Flores, a Scholar of Puerto Rican Culture in New York, Dies at 71".
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Rivera, Petra R (2011). "Triple Consciousness". Transition (105): 156–163. doi:10.2979/transition.105.156. JSTOR 10.2979/transition.105.156.
  9. "Press Release Aug. 9, 2011 - 2011 American Book Awards" (PDF). Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Flores, Juan, and Miriam Jiménez Román. “Triple-Consciousness? Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States." Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 4, no. 3 (2009): 319–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442220903331662.
  13. "Leadership". afrolatin@forum. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  14. Jiménez Román, Miriam. "Miriam Jimenez Roman Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  15. "Miriam Jiménez Román". BLKC. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  16. "Advisory Board". Oxford African American Studies Center. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  17. Wright, Jenay. "8 Afro Latinos Who Made Important Contributions to US History". Remezcla. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  18. danielli (12 February 2019). "Afro-Latino Figures Who Changed The World For The Good". Mitú. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  19. Ocaña Perez, Damarys (2 February 2012). "6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World!". Latina. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  20. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/miriam-jimenez-roman-1951-2020/
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