Contents -- Agradecimientos -- Prelude -- Introduction: Intercultural Connections -- Chapter 1: "In Bed" with la Malinche: Stories of "Family" a la Octavio Paz , Daniel Patrick Moynihan , and Oscar Lewis -- Chapter 2: La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets -- Interlude 2: La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Chapter 3: Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land -- Interlude 3: Grandma Knows Best: The Women in Manchild in the Promised Land -- Chapter 4: Overcoming Self-loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo -- Interlude 4: The Brown Buffalo Puts on Blackface -- Epilogue: La Malinche Comes Home -- Notes -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Interlude 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Interlude 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Interlude 4 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- Index.