Tabla de Contenidos: “…Collins -- Inequality near and far: international adoption as seen from a Brazilian favela / Claudia Fonseca -- History, culture, and place-making: 'native' status and Maya identity in Belize / Laurie Kroshus Medina -- The carnivalization of the world / Richard Parker -- "Playing with fire": the gendered construction of chicana/Mexicana sexuality / Patricia Zavella -- Returned migration, language, and identity: Puerto Rican bilinguals in dos worlds/two mundos / Ana Celia Zentella -- A place called home: a queer political economy of Mexican immigrant men's family experiences / Lionel Cantú -- Dominican blackness and the modern world / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Jennifer's butt / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- La quinceañera: making gender and ethnic identities / Karen Mary Davalos -- Two sides of the same coin: modern gaúcho identity in Brazil / Ruben George Oliven -- The United States, Mexico, and machismo / Américo Paredes -- Spectacular bodies: folklorization and the politics of identity in Ecuadorian beauty pageants / Mark Rogers -- Gender, politics, and the triumph of mestizaje in early 20th-century Nicaragua / Jeffrey Gould -- The construction of indigenous suspects: militarization and the gendered and ethnic dynamics of human rights abuses in southern Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- For whom the Taco Bells toll: popular responses to NAFTA south of the border / Matthew C. …”