Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores have compiled a comprehensive edited volume that addresses the invisibility and complexities of Afro-Latino identity in the United States. The organization of the book follows the historical trajectory of Afro-Latinos in the United States from its founding to the present day. The central question, evident throughout, is how racial ideologies in both the United States and Latin America are experienced and contested. The ten sections overlap, giving cohesiveness to the separate articles. Divided chronologically, they include scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews designed to give a critical view of afro-latinidad from multiple angles. These pieces, individually and as a whole, reflect what Jiménez Román and Flores coin as the “triple-consciousness” of Afro-Latinos in the United States, based on W. E. B. DuBois’s notion of “double-consciousness” and what they state are the multiple experiences and perspectives of being Latino,...
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