This chapter presents the book’s main arguments and ideas. It introduces Latina narratives as affective maps, using storytelling to explore emotional landscapes experienced differently by Mestizas, white Latinas, and Black Latinas across various historical periods and transnational territories. It shows how Latina affect, as a tool for spacemaking, not only challenges the dominant forces of US white supremacy but also interacts with Latin American racial ideologies like mestizaje and blanqueamiento. Chapter one also introduces the framework guiding the book, which prioritizes Blackness as the epistemological entry point to explore hemispheric, diasporic, and transnational racial and gender formations that shape Latina affect and its role in storytelling as a process of mapping. The chapter defines the key paradigms that the book’s framework refines, including Latina storytelling and poetics of space, Latinx affect, and Latinx hemispheric methods. It also outlines the two Latin American racial ideologies examined in the book as main influences on Latina affect: blanqueamiento and mestizaje, and concludes with an overview of the remaining chapters in the book.