Culinaria el alimentacao em Gilberto Freyre: Raca, identidade e modernidade

NIL CASTRO DA SILVA                                                                                3

Reflections on Regime Change and Democracy in Bahia, Brazil

JULIAN DURAZO HERRMANN                                                                      23

Habla y escritura en Vidas secas de Graciliano Ramos

LUIS ALFREDO INTERSIMONE                                                                    45

Imagining Ecuadorians: Historicizing National Identity in Twentieth Century Otavalo, Ecuador

SERGIO MIGUEL HUARCAYA                                                                      64

The Emergence of the "Temporary Mexican": American Agriculture, the US COngress and the 1920 Hearings on the Temporary Admission of Illiterate Mexican Laborers

ALEXANDRA FILINDRA                                                                                85

Concetracion y extranjerizacion del capital en la Argentina reciente: Mayor autonomia nacional o incremento de la dependencia?

ANDRES WAINER Y MARTIN SCHORR                                                           103

The Territorialization of Ethnopolitical Reforms in Colombia : Choco as a Case Study

MARCELA VELASCO JARAMILLO                                                                 126

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Educational Inequality of Opportunity

ANDRES HAM                                                                                              153

Beyond Contratos de proteccion: Strong and Weak Unionism in Mexican Retail Enterprises

CHRIS TILLY                                                                                               176

RESEARCH REPORTS AND NOTES

The Role of Drug Related Violence and Extortion in Promoting Mexican Migration : Unexpected Consequences of a Drug War

VIRIDIANA RIOS CONTRERAS                                                                         199

Social Disorganization and Crime: Searching for the Determinants of Crime at the Community Level

BRAULIO FIGUEIREDO ALVES DA SILVA                                                           218

REVIEW ESSAYS

Liberal Democracy, Populism, and Beyond: Elite Circulation in Bolivarian Venzuela

DAVID J. MYERS                                                                                            231

Revolution in the Revolution: Recent Developments in the Cuban Economy

ARCHIBALD R, M. RITTER                                                                               246

State Building and Taxation in Latin America

HEIDI JANE M. SMITH                                                                                     256

Feminicide: Theorizing Border Violence

MARTHA IDALIA CHEW SANCHEZ                                                                    263

Immigration and Its Effects

PAUL RYER                                                                                                   277