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{"value"=>"1974-2016", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1974/2016"}
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{"value"=>"Miriam Jiménez Román papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
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{"value"=>"Miriam Jiménez Román (1951-2020) was an Afro-Puerto Rican activist, scholar, editor, author and professor who was a pioneer in the field of Afro-Latin@ studies. Jiménez Román's papers include personal and professional correspondence, contracts, research materials and personal writings, all of which helped to create and define a space for the cultural appreciation of the Afro-Latin@ community. Her family's experience as a working class family that migrated from Puerto Rico to New York helped shape her critique of racism, sexism and classism that persist in this multidimensional world. Jiménez Román contributions to the study of Afro-Latin@ cultures continues to influence the study and greater dialogue surrounding the complex identities of the Afro-Latin@ diaspora."}
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
{"value"=>"Materials primarily in English and Spanish with some in Portuguese."}
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{"value"=>"Jiménez Román, Miriam, 1951-2020", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Miriam Jiménez Román (1951-2020) was an Afro-Puerto Rican activist, scholar, editor, author and professor. She is best known for <span class=\"title\">The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States</span> (2010), a selection of essays that she co-edited alongside her husband Juan Flores. She was born June 11, 1951 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Her family migrated to East Harlem in 1952. Román grew up in a working class Afro-Puerto Rican family, which shaped her initial understanding of race, class, and gender.</p> <p> Though she initially attended University of Vermont from 1969 to 1971 on a visual arts scholarship, Jiménez Román studied as an exchange student at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras for one year before transferring to the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. She graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, and a certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies. After completing her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University, Jiménez Román returned to Puerto Rico, where she co-founded the feminist collective Encuentro de Mujeres. Subsequently, in 1981, she worked at InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico as the Assistant Director of External Resources.</p> <p> Jiménez Román left Puerto Rico in 1983 to attend the Eleventh Course of the Women's International Democratic Federation (Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres) in Cuba. She returned to SUNY Binghamton later in 1983 for the fall semester to pursue her PhD in sociology and taught courses about the Caribbean. Jiménez Román completed her coursework and left the program in 1987 to work at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as the Research Coordinator and Curator of Exhibitions and Special Programs. She worked closely with Schomburg director Howard Dodson to create exhibitions such as \"Marcus Garvey: The Centennial Exhibition\" (1987), \"Survival and Resistance: Black Women in the Americas\" (1989), and \"Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: Race Man\" (1996). She left this role in 1997 to serve as the editor of the <span class=\"title\">CENTRO Journal of Puerto Rican Studies</span> and returned to the Schomburg Center as Assistant Director of the Scholars-in-Residence Program (2001-2004), then later again as a Scholar-in-Residence (2010-2011).</p> <p> Jiménez Román met and married Juan Flores, a professor and scholar of Latinx Studies, during her time at the Schomburg Center. This marriage was the beginning of an academic partnership that would span the rest of their lives. Both Jiménez Román's and Flores's scholarly work grappled with Afro-Latin identity in the United States, and they co-founded the Afro-Latin@ Project (now the afrolatin@ forum) in 2005 to operate as a center for research and community work that centers Afro-Latinidad in the United States. In 2010, the pair co-edited <span class=\"title\">The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States</span>. This selection of essays addressed the history of Afro-Latinidad within the context of race, gender, sexuality, and art. <span class=\"title\">The Afro-Latin@ Reader</span> laid the foundation for Afro-Latin studies in the United States and was awarded the 2011 American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. Jiménez Román took on the role of director of the afrolatin@ forum from 2011 until the end of her life. Jiménez Román passed away on August 6, 2020 after a four year-long battle with cancer in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Miriam Jiménez Román Papers, dating from 1974 to 2016, comprise personal and professional correspondence, contracts, research files and personal writings that helped to create and define a space for the cultural appreciation of the Afro-Latin@ community. This collection reflects Jiménez Román's process creating the Afro-Latin Reader, a book she co-edited with her husband Juan Flores and published in 2010 by Duke University Press. Her papers also show the numerous conferences and speaking engagements she participated in during her career. Consultancies files show many of her collaborations throughout her career with artists, historians and organizations whose work was rooted in preserving and promoting Black and Latino history.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Miriam Jiménez Román papers are arranged in five series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/186707#c1834121'>Series I. Personal Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1981-2021</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Personal series is organized chronologically, documenting Miriam Jiménez Román's life and work. This series encompasses a diverse range of materials, including personal notes featuring biographical statements, resumes, and diary-like entries, alongside poems by Melvin Lewis. It also contains printed articles, such as biographies and obituaries, related to Jiménez Román. Notable items include two certificates: one from the 1988 Cross-Cultural Black Women's Studies Summer Institute and another from 1992 recognizing her support for the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine during Hispanic Heritage Month. Additionally, the series holds a folder of collected recipe clippings and a notebook with entries on her life in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico specifically relating to property she and Flores purchased there as well as notes on her reading and writing ideas.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/186707#c1834128'>Series II. Education</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1969-1999</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Education Series is arranged chronologically into three subseries: High School of Art and Design, SUNY Binghamton, and the Eleventh Course of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF). The High School of Art and Design (1969)subseries documents Jiménez Román's time there, including her high school diploma and yearbook. The SUNY Binghamton(1982-1999)subseries is extensive and includes course syllabi, handwritten and printed notes, Jiménez Román's dissertation drafts and comments by professor and researcher Kelvin Santiago. Also included is the PhD draft dissertation of Juan Giusti, a Puerto Rican historian and professor at the University of Rios Piedra. This draft dissertations contains Jiménez Román's annotations. Giusti obtained his doctoral degree in Sociology from Binghamton University. Lastly, the Eleventh Course of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) subseries covers Jiménez Román's educational trip to Cuba in 1983, where she attended the Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres (FDIM), or the Eleventh Course of the Women's International Democratic Federation. This feminist and global organization advocates for women's rights. The files include handwritten loose notes, undated personal statements, and course notebooks written in both English and Spanish. Additionally, the subseries contains printed matter from the Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres held in Cuba, such as the conference's internal procedures, program itinerary, and a plenary speech draft in Spanish.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/186707#c1834169'>Series III. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1982-2016</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Correspondence series is arranged chronologically and is divided into two subseries: Personal and Professional. The Personal Correspondence subseries includes handwritten letters and postcards from colleagues and friends. A notable item is a postcard from Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri. Additionally, the Personal Correspondence subseries contains correspondence and notes from Jualynne Dodson and Howard Dodson, and a notebook from Jiménez Román's notes from their trip to Cuba. The Professional Correspondence subseries contains written correspondence from professional engagements, such as an invitation by Anna Yeatman, a Visiting Research Fellow who invited Jiménez Román to be a guest speaker at the Australian Museum.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/186707#c1834181'>Series IV. Professional</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-2016</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Professional series is arranged chronologically. It contains materials from her professional work at the Schomburg Center (1987-1997), CENTRO Journal (1997-2001), Columbia University (1990-1998) and Brown University (2001-2003). This series includes correspondence about the Schomburg Center exhibitions and programs, exhibition research materials, CENTRO Journal meeting minutes, correspondence and Jiménez Román's and exit evaluation from her departure from CENTRO Journal as their Managing Editor. Course syllabi are also included in this series. These syllabi are from Jiménez Román's Latin American studies courses at various universities and from colleagues at other academic institutions. Also, this series includes correspondence, research materials, essay drafts, and meeting minutes related to Jiménez Román's consultancies on projects such as Africa's Legacy in Mexico: Photographs by Tony Gleaton (1992-1995), the Smithsonian Institution's Latino Initiative Advisory Group (1994-1996), and the Young Lords' Party HBO Film Project (1998). The Professional files notably include correspondence from Audre Lorde regarding her participation in the Black Women in the Americas exhibition (1987-1988). This series also includes Jiménez Román's Afro-Latin@ Reader, which is arranged in four subcategories: (1) Afro-Latin Forum, (2) Afro-Latin@ Reader, (3) Afro-Latin@ Project, (4) Afro-Latino Research and Resource Project. The Afro-Latin Reader: History and Culture in the United States was co-edited by Jiménez Román along with her husband, Juan Flores and published in 2010 by Duke University Press. This book contains a collection of essays exploring the history of Afro-Latinidad through the lens of race, ethnicity, and gender. The publication of this book was significant to Jiménez Román and Flores. Their goal was to deepen understanding of the broader Latino community in the United States and, specifically, to increase awareness of Afro-Latino communities within the country. Another noteworthy file is from Jiménez Roman's time at the Schomburg Center Scholars-in- Residence Program, where she conducted research and collected Census data, newsclippings and other research materials for her project \"Shifting Affinities: Afro-Latin@s in New York City, 1900-1945\".In this project, Jiménez Román investigates how the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, and socio-economic factors influence the relationships between Black Latinos and African Americans living in New York City. Jiménez Roman's Writing files (1974-2010) are also included in this series and are arranged in chronological order. Some of Jiménez Roman's writings include: \"It's Not About Nature: \"Race and Identity in the Americas\" (1992), \"Looking at the Middle Ground: Racial Mixing as Panacea?\" (2004-2005), \"Black Press on Puerto Ricans used for \"Mixed Race\" Paper (2004-2005), and \"Triple Consciousness: Approaches to Afro-Latino Culture in the United States\" (2009).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/186707#c1834492'>Series V. Research Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1834-2016 [bulk 1968-2014]</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Research Files series is arranged alphabetically into eight categories, which reflect Jiménez Román's original titles: Arturo Schomburg, Jose C. Barbosa, Juano Hernandez, Latin@s,\"Mestisaje\" (Mixed Race), The Americas and Race, Race in the USA, and Women. This series comprises chapters, papers, and articles from books, newspapers, and magazines that Jiménez Román collected over the years and utilized for her teachings and writings. The Arturo Schomburg research files include copies of primary source materials of written correspondence by Arturo Schomburg as well as chapters written by or about him. Jiménez Román used these for her research on Schomburg. Other notable materials in this series are the files of Jorge Celso Barbosa and Juano Hernandez. Jorge Celso Barbosa was an Afro-Puerto Rican physician and political figure, recognized as the father of the statehood movement in Puerto Rico. This subseries includes chapters from his book, La Obra de José Celso Barbosa which was edited by his daughter Pilar Barbosa de Rosario de Roasario. Jiménez Román also published an article on Barbosa titled, \"Un hombre (negro) del pueblo: José Celso Barbosa and the Puerto Rican 'Race' Toward Whiteness.\" This article was published in 1996 in <span class=\"title\">Centro:Journal for Puerto Rican Studies</span>. Research materials and notes related to Juano Hernandez, an Afro-Puerto Rican stage and movie actor who was prominent during the 1920s and 1930s are also included in this subseries. Additionally, this series incorporates Jiménez Román's extensive research on race, ethnicity, and gender in the United States, Latin American and Caribbean countries.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Original folder titles were provided by Jiménez Román and were preserved wherever possible.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Bequest from Miriam Jiménez Román in 2021.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p> <p>See the Art and Artifacts Division for the artifacts.</p> <p>See the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division for the audio and moving image collection.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Pre-arranged by Diana Lachatanere.</p><p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Laura Marte</span> in 2025.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Next Century of Black Studies grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
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1974
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1974
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2016
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1974
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2016
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28.96 linear feet (71 boxes)
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{"value"=>"[Item], Miriam Jiménez Román papers, Sc MG 978, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}