Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Agradecimientos ix
4. Prelude xiii
5. Introduction: Intercultural connections 1
6. One “ in bed” with la Malinche: stories of “family” á la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis 23
7. Two La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets 39
8. Interlude 2 La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem 55
9. Three Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land 71
10. Interlude 3 Grandma knows best : the women in manchild in the promised land 85
11. Four Overcoming Self-Loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo 101
12. Interlude 4 The brown buffalo puts on blackface 121
13. Epilogue La Malinche comes home 132
14. Notes 137
15. Bibliography 175
16. Copyright acknowledgments 189
17. Index 191