A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje
• 1. Arturo Schomburg, Pura Belpré, and the “Racial Integrity” of Auto/biography
• 2. Jesús Colón, the New York Young Lords, and “Observe and Participate” Autobiography
• 3. AfroLatinidad as Creative Destruction: Piri Thomas’s Life Writing as a Theorization of Violence
• 4. Call-and-Response AfroLatinidad: Spirituality, Race, and Gender in Marta Moreno Vega’s and Lourdes Casal’s Life Writing
• 5. Queer AfroLatinidades: Monstrosity and Reclaiming Black Latinx Girlhood in Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls and Ariana Brown’s Verse Memoirs
• Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in AfroLatinx Narratives
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Regina Marie Mills is an assistant professor of Latinx and multiethnic literature in the department of English at Texas A&M University, and was the guest coeditor of the 2022 special issue "Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades" in The Black Scholar.