"My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter and the children of my public school had the intelligence to pass a citywide test," Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay.
Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina Women of African descent shar.
She knew then she was loved and valued, and she learned that to be an Afro-Puerto Rican woman meant activism was her birth right. "My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter and the children of my public school had the intelligence to pass a citywide test," Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay
