Whiter Shades of Pale: "Coloring In" Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil
 
- Alex Flynn, Elena Calvo Gonzalez and Marcelo Mendes de Souza 3
 
La sancion de la capacidad civil plena de la mujer en los paises del Cono Sur, 1945-1990: Una propuesta de analisis del fenomeno legal
 
-Veronica Giordano 25
 
Asentamientos and Cantegriles: New Poverty and the Moral Dangers of Proximity in Uruguayan Squatter Settlements 
 
- Julienne Corboz 44
 
The Contours of Party Patronage in Argentina
 
-Gerardo Scherlis 63
 
The Impact of Criminal Violence on Regime Legitimacy in Latin America
 
-Miguel Carreras 85
 
Measuring the Individual Level Determinants of Social Insurance Preferences: Survey Evidence from the 2008 Argentine Pension Nationalization
 
-Matthew Carnes and Isabela Mares 108
 
Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America 
 
Edward Telles and Dania Garcia 130
 
 
Research Reports and Notes
 
Pillage in the Archives: The Whereabouts of Guatemalan Documentary Treasures 
 
-Wendy Kramer, W.George Lovell, and Christopher H.Luts 153
 
La funcion ideologica de la historiografia cubana en la decadadel sesenta del siglo XX
 
- Yaima Martinez Aleman 168
 
 
Review Essays
 
Art, Architecture, and Religious Orders in the Latin Americans : From Quebec to Quito
 
- Gauvin Alexander Bailey 181
 
On Good Books and Good Questions, Regardless of Whar is Cool in Atlantic Historiographies
 
-Jorge Canizares Esguerra 193
 
Spanish Latin Americanists on Contemporary Narrative
 
-Wilfrido H.Corral 205