Tag: Miriam Jiménez Román

  • For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color The New York Times 2012-01-13 Mireya Navarro Every decade, the Census Bureau spends billions of dollars and deploys hundreds of thousands of workers to get an accurate portrait of the American population. Among the questions on the census form is one about race, with 15…

  • Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…

  • “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Negra & Beautiful: The Unique Challenges Faced By Afro-Latinas Latina 2011-11-29 Damarys Ocaña, Freelance Journalist The frustrating ironies of being Afro-Latina hit Yuly Marshall with stunning regularity: At work at a Miami hospital, Hispanic patients of the Cuban-born radiology technician usually assume she’s African American, asking her, “Where did you learn to speak Spanish like…