Chapter 1 Introduction: Transnational Latina Narratives

Chapter 2 Denise Chávez’s Loving Pedro Infante (2001): The Making of a Transnational Border Community

Chapter 3 Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo (2002): Translating Gender and Genealogy Across the U.S./Mexico Borderlands

Chapter 4 Marta Moreno Vega’s When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio (2004): The Diasporic Formation of an Afro-Latina Identity

Chapter 5 Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee (2005): A Diasporic Response to Multiracial Dominican Migrations

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Toward a Pan-Latina Global Alliance