Tabla de Contenidos: “…The folk base of Chicano literature / Américo Paredes ; Mexican American literature : a historical perspective / Luis Leal ; Critical approaches to Chicano literature / Joseph Sommers ; Spanish codes in the Southwest / Rosaura Sánchez ; Toward a concept of culture / Juan Gómez-Quiñones -- The narrative : focus on Tomás Rivera. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Crahan -- Continuity and change in the Mexican Catholic Church / Soledad Loaeza-Lajous -- The call to do justice : conflict in the Brazilian Catholic Church, 1968-79 / Leonard Martin -- The Catholic Church and politics in Chile / Brian Smith -- The Catholic Church and state tension in Paraguay / Andrea O'Brien -- The Catholic Church, human rights and the "dirty war" in Argentina / Emilio Mignone -- The disappeared : a new challenge to Christian faith in Latin America / Patrick Rice -- Catholicism in Latin America : conclusions and perspectives / Dermot Keogh.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: identifying selves and others in the insurgent Andes / Sinclair Thomson -- From assimilation to segregation : Guatemala, 1800-1944 / Arturo Taracena -- The census and the making of a social "order" in nineteenth-century Bolivia / Rossana Barragán -- Forging the unlettered Indian : the pedagogy of race in the Bolivian Andes / Brooke Larson -- Indian ruins, national origins : Tiwanaku and indigenismo in La Paz, 1897-1933 / Seemin Qayum -- Mestizaje, distinction, and cultural presence : the view from Oaxaca / Deborah Poole -- On the origin of the "Mexican race" / Claudio Lomnitz -- Politics of place and urban indígenas in Ecuador's indigenous movement / Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld -- Education and decolonization in the work of the Aymara activist Eduardo Leandro Nina Quispe / Esteban Ticona Alejo -- Mistados, cholos, and the negation of identity in the Guatemalan highlands / Charles R. …”