{"id":44125,"date":"2015-11-22T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2017-04-25T02:47:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:47:05","slug":"qa-with-miriam-jimenez-roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44125","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q&A with Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Los Afro-Latinos: A Blog Following the Afro-Latino Experience<\/a>
\n2012-03-30<\/p>\n

Kim Haas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In February, Latina<\/em> magazine listed \u201c6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World<\/a>.\u201d Naturally, Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n was second on the list.<\/p>\n

Her work as a writer, professor and head of the Afro-Latin@ Forum<\/a> has educated the world about the Afro-Latin experience and made her an authority on the subject. Her latest work, The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States<\/a><\/em>, has been hailed for critics for its diverse portrait of Black Latinos in America.<\/p>\n

Jim\u00e9nez sat down to speak with Los Afro-Latinos<\/em> about the book, Afro-Latinos in the media and bridging the gap between African Americans and Latinos.<\/p>\n

Los Afro-Latinos: Why did you publish The Afro-Latin@ Reader<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miriam Jim\u00e9nez Rom\u00e1n:<\/strong> After the 2000 Census was released [the mainstream media], basically posed Latinos and African-Americans in a Black vs. Brown dynamic. And it gave the sense that the [United States] was evolving into this post racial state and we didn\u2019t really have to talk about race anymore. Latinos didn\u2019t have a concern about race because the Census says Latinos, the largest minority group, can be of any race and this is a demonstration of overcoming race in [the United States]. My co-editor [Juan Flores<\/a>] and I and a number of other people were appalled by that kind of analysis.<\/em><\/p>\n

First, we\u2019re not in a post racial state. Race is still a very important part of how all of us \u2013 globally \u2013 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…<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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