INTRODUCTION

African-Descended Americans, Displacement, and Neoliberalism: Environmental Justice as a Human Right

APRIL J. MAYES                                                3

ARTICLES

Between the Paternalistic and the Neoliberal State: Dispossession and Resistance in Afro-descendant Communities of the Upper Cauca, Colombia

IRENE VELEZ-TORRES AND DANIEL VARELA        9

A Modern Paradise: Garifuna Land , Labor and Displacement-in-Place

SHARLENE MOLLETT                                         27

BOOK REVIEW

Catholic Brotherhoods and Afro-Mexican Social Mobility in New Spain

DIEGO A. GODOY 46

OTHER ARTICLES

From PassiVe to Radical Revolution in Venezuela's Populist Project

RYAN BRANDING 48

Constitutional Struggle and Indigenous Resistance in Latin America: The Case of Panama

ELOY FISHER 65