Invisibility and influence: a literary history of AfroLatinidades

Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje

1. Arturo Schomburg, Pura Belpre, and the "Racial Integrity" of Auto/biography

2. Jesus Colon, 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 Diaz's Ordinary Girls and Ariana Brown's Verse Memoirs

Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in AfroLatinx Narratives.