The complex identity of Latinas of African descent, and the personal stories and projects of a selection of Afro-Latina activists and advocates, are explored in this similarly multidimensional book.  The eleven essays in English and four poems in Spanish that comprise this work are sometimes academic in tone, sometimes political, sometimes even spiritual but always personal and engaging to read. The contributors, who hale from all over Latin America, examine their own cultures and family histories as a first step in advocating for racial and cultural equality. The editors of this book have careers in fields including academia, the arts and grassroots organizing.

A stronger introduction, synthesizing the themes in the essays and poems as well as an appendix listing the myriad organizations and conferences that are mentioned by the authors, would have improved on this already noteworthy book.