Interview with Miriam Gomes, conducted by Claudia Briones as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender

Biography

Miriam Gomes belongs to the Cape Verdean community, an African-descended community that has been in Argentina for over a hundred years. She takes part in different organizations for the defense and diffusion of African cultural values and is the Vice President of the Cape Verde Society in Argentina.