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.
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.
[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?