This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups. The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

A Bibliography on South American Economic Affairs was first published in 1955. This bibliography covers articles in 229 nineteenth-century periodicals in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch. The bibliographical entries total 9,939, of which more than 6,200 are original entries and the remainder, cross references. The entries are grouped under 11 major geographic headings, with nine subheadings on such subjects as agriculture, commerce, and communications under each. The bibliography provides a reference key to a large and important class of source materials for the economic history of South America. Since the period covered precedes the first publication of the Poole Index and the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, the material is not to be found in these standard indexes.