Reviews

"The border," comment the editors in their introduction to The U.S.-Mexico Border, "now represents a global crossroads in which the

International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization by Thomas Olesen, 2005. Zed Books, 256 pages, $27.50

When the movie Traffic burst onto U.S. movie screens in December 2000, the pundits were unanimous: By confronting a difficult

“Why are you importing a U.S. problem into our society? We are not black, or white, or Indian. We are

b>Mining and Agriculture in Highland Bolivia: Ecology, History, and Commerce Among the Jukumanis by Ricardo A. Godoy, University of Arizona

Issues of race and racism are emerging as pivotal to the political and cultural debates fueling the contentious re-imagining of

The fact of violence and the promise of more to come arises from the division of the world into two

With almost all U.S. military assistance to Latin America now justified by the war on drugs, any consideration of U.S.

It is fitting that Linda Green's book on Mayan widows comes out at the end of the century. This tour

The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action by Jeffrey T. Jackson, 2005, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 392 pages. The colonized

Conveying the complex enigmatic contradiction that is Argentina in the pages of a book is accomplished in this installment of

Nazih Richani’s book Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia is a convincing and important