IntroductionAlfred Stephan Part I Contested States 1. The State of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of States,Franklin W. Knight 2. The State and Development in Historical Perspective,Peter H. Smith 3. The State of Economics in Brazil and Latin America: Is the Past Prologue to the Future?,Albert Fishlow 4. The State of Revolution,Margaret E. and Peter H. Smith Part II New Voices/New Visions 5. Production, Reproduction, and the Polity: Women's Strategic and Practical Gender Issues,Helen I. Safa and Cornelia Butler Flora 6. The Construction of a Latin American Feminist Identity,Marysa Navarro-Aranguren 7. Religion: Reconstituting Church and Pursuing Change,Margaret E. Crahan 8. Remapping Culture,Jean Franco Part III American Identities in Formation 9. Transforming Memories and Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians,Kay Warren 10. Race, Color, and Class in the Caribbean,Anthony P. Maingot 11. Continent on the Move: Immigrants and Refugees in the Americas,M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Alejandro Portes 12. The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States,Ruben G. Rumbaut Contributors Index