Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje 1
5. CHAPTER 1 Arturo Schomburg, Pura Belpré, and the “Racial Integrity” of Auto/biography 21
6. CHAPTER 2 Jesús Colón, the New York Young Lords, and “Observe and Participate” Autobiography 47
7. CHAPTER 3 AfroLatinidad as Creative Destruction: Piri Thomas’s Life Writing as a Theorization of Violence 75
8. CHAPTER 4 Call-and- Response AfroLatinidad: Spirituality, Race, and Gender in Marta Moreno Vega’s and Lourdes Casal’s Life Writing 103
9. CHAPTER 5 Queer AfroLatinidades: Monstrosity and Reclaiming Black Latinx Girlhood in Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls and Ariana Brown’s Verse Memoirs 127
10. Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in AfroLatinx Narratives 153
11. Notes 161
12. Bibliography 204
13. Index 229