This chapter explains why an analysis of the absences of Afro-descended women’s voices and bodies –vis-à-vis those of white-Creole and U.S. white women from the central discussions and exchanges playing out during the interwar period in Puerto Rico is important because it allows us to understand and weigh the contributions of Afro-descended populations to the political debate and sociocultural life in the Island and across all its overlapping diasporas. Such an analysis would demonstrate how ‘race’ strongly demarcated the social and political discussions among the Puerto Rican intelligentsia in Puerto Rico and in New York City between the two world wars. The term labile is used in this context to underline how, for instance, ‘womanhood’ and ‘race’ are not the naturalized and ahistorical categories they are commonly made out to be.