Moving between a village on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and the New York City neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Harlem, this work traces the daily lives, experiences, and grassroots organizing of the Garifuna. This work also examines the relationship between the Garifuna and Honduran national society.

Based on two years of fieldwork in Honduras and New York, her study examines not only how this transnational system works but also the impact that the complex racial and ethnic identity of the Garifuna have on the surrounding societies. As a people who can claim to be black, indigenous, and Latino, the Garifuna have a complex relationship not only with U.S. and Honduran societies but also with the international community of nongovernmental organizations that advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and blacks.