  Further, racialized women of Latin America and the Caribbean have provided new constructive frameworks for conceptualizing racialized and ethnic identities. One such attempt can be found in the development of Amefricanidad, a term coined by Afro-Brazilian scholar Léila Gonsalez, that resists the use of Latinidad because of its Eurocentric underpinnings, much like how mestizaje downplays the Indigenous and African dimension of Latin America and the Caribbean (Curiel 2007: 99). Building on the use of Amefricanidad or Amefricanicity, others have argued for the use of the term as a privileged epistemology that enhances the visibility of Afro-descended feminism in the region (Alvarez &amp; Caldwell 2016: v). Amefricanidad tracks the importance of African and Indigenous roots of identity, but also seeks to think from within those identities as it pursues an intersectional approach to racism, colonialism, and imperialism (Alvarez &amp; Caldwell 2016: v). Amefricanidad tracks racialized identity, but at the same time signals plurality in its capacity to capture the multiple inheritances of Latin America and the Caribbean.