Americas: New Interpretive Essays

by Alfred Stepan (Editor)

Overview

This volume consists of essays on major themes and issues in modern Latin American history and politics. The first group of essays present an overview of the underlying dynamics of change that have shaped Latin America and the Caribbean since the mid-19th century. Subsequent essays examine topics as diverse as the changing roles of Latin American women, ethnic groups and conflicts in the region, migration, the church and its social activism, the evolution of a Latin American voice in both high and popular culture and the experiences of Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the USA.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195077957
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/19/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	9.19(w) x 6.13(h) x 1.04(d)

About the Author

Columbia University

Table of Contents

Introduction, Alfred StephanPart I Contested States1. The State of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of States, Franklin W. Knight2. The State and Development in Historical Perspective, Peter H. Smith3. The State of Economics in Brazil and Latin America: Is the Past Prologue to the Future?, Albert Fishlow4. The State of Revolution, Margaret E. and Peter H. SmithPart II New Voices/New Visions5. Production, Reproduction, and the Polity: Women's Strategic and Practical Gender Issues, Helen I. Safa and Cornelia Butler Flora6. The Construction of a Latin American Feminist Identity, Marysa Navarro-Aranguren7. Religion: Reconstituting Church and Pursuing Change, Margaret E. Crahan8. Remapping Culture, Jean FrancoPart III American Identities in Formation9. Transforming Memories and Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians, Kay Warren10. Race, Color, and Class in the Caribbean, Anthony P. Maingot11. Continent on the Move: Immigrants and Refugees in the Americas, M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Alejandro Portes12. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States, Ruben G. RumbautContributorsIndex