Communities of Resistance is a long overdue, illuminating collection of work on Central American communities in the U.S. by immigrant and U.S. born Central American scholars. Since the 1980s, the Central American population in the U.S. has grown exponentially, but has remained invisible in larger conversations about Latinidad and Latinx 1 education issues (Lesser & Batalova, 2017;Alvarado, Estrada, & Hernandez, 2017;Torres 2004). Historically, the instances where Central Americans were visible in scholarly work, it was only within discussions of violence, trauma, and death. U.S. Central Americans (2017) brings forth a collective of powerful, scholarly voices that highlight the unique histories and experiences of Central Americans living in the U.S. by "[shifting] beyond civil wars and political factions to community emplacement and social justice within the United States," therefore making a significant intervention to the ways in which Central Americans have been studied and written about in the past (Alvarado, Estrada, & Hernandez, 2017, p. IX). The contributing authors and editors present readers with critical examinations of the U.S. colonial and neocolonial projects that have displaced hundreds and propelled migration to the U.S.; and within a U.S. context, the scholars interrogate questions of identity, memory, cultural production, gendered experiences, and transnationalism for members of the Central American diaspora (Alvarado, Estrada, & Hernandez, 2017). By providing the language and critical analysis necessary to begin to understand the complexities and heterogeneity of Latinxs in the U.S., this volume, although not grounded in the field of education, is a significant contribution to the knowledge base of any scholar and advocate interested in the complex experiences of Latinx students.In the preface, the authors discuss how this volume was born out of conversations amongst each other "as Central American-born scholars writing on intersected Central American and U.S. communities" who are attempting to build a community of U.S. Central American scholars to "[provide] an alternative framework for analysis for Latina/o studies through its inclusions of U.S. Central 1 I use the term "Latinx" with an intentional use of the "x" for the purposeful erasure of the heteronormative gender binary. Please see Why We Say Latinx: Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People Explain (Reichard, 2015) for more information. For further information on the use of "Latinx" in higher education see: