Legacy: What Miriam Jiménez Román Taught Me About Race & Afro-Latinx Studies

I was connected with Miriam Jiménez Román in May 2020 as part of my “Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico” documentary project, but her book The Afro-Latin@ Reader sat on my shelf much longer. Those who know the pioneering scholar and activist’s work (recently profiled in The New Yorker ) understand the significance of her book published in 2010, just a couple years after I graduated college. I had…