This chapter consists of a close reading of the novel In the Name of Salomé, by Julia Álvarez (2000), as an example of how racial ideologies such as Hispanidad and anti-Blackness have emotionally impacted Latinas since the early formation of Spanish Caribbean nationalisms. The novel is a fictional biography of the Dominican poet and educator, Salomé Ureña, and her daughter, Camila. The chapter demonstrates how the story maps the ideologies of Hispanidad and anti-Blackness that influenced the early formation of Dominican nationalism as they are experienced by Black and mixed-race Dominican women while enduring blanqueamiento. The chapter focuses on how these ideologies censor female, lesbian, and Black emotionalities, constraining how Dominican women sense their bodies, relationships, and spaces. This chapter also outlines how the erasure and repression of female, lesbian, and Black affects impact Dominican women in the early twentieth-century diaspora.