This chapter examines how misogynist and anti-Blackness ideologies in Spanish Caribbean nationalisms impacted Latina emotionality during the second half of the twentieth century, parallel to US geopolitical interests in Latin America. The chapter analyzes Cristina (García, Dreaming in Cuban, Knopf, 1992) novel Dreaming in Cuban, which portrays the experiences of three generations of white Cuban women from the years prior to the Cuban Revolution to the Mariel boatlift in 1980. The chapter argues that the novel constitutes an affective map that shows how white Cuban women negotiated their identities with dominant ideological and emotional structures in the Cold War era. The analysis in this chapter demonstrates how central emotional paradigms in Cuban identities—such as trauma, exile, and nostalgia—are sensed differently according to generational, racial, and gender discrepancies. The approach presented throughout the chapter explicitly marks the identities in the novel as those of white Latinas to emphasize how racialization and segregation determine not only dominant ideological structures but also emotional attachments and reactions. The chapter concludes by showing the limitations of white Cuban storytelling while attempting to trace and portray the erased experiences of Black Cubans.