Frontmatter -- Contents -- Afro-Hispanic linguistics. Challenges, misrepresentations, and assumptions -- An overview of recent research on the sociolinguistic role of Luso-Africans, ladino Africans, and criollos of African descent in the early colonial Spanish Americas -- Methodological choices and personal responsibility of researchers -- Afro-Puerto Rican Spanish declarative intonation -- San Andrean Spanish stylistic variation in academia -- Subject pronoun expression in Equatoguinean Spanish -- Issues of Spanish language maintenance among the Equatorial Guinean community in Houston -- Towards a social justice framework for marginalized linguistic communities -- Index