| In Brief | 2 |
| Open Forum | 4 |
| Marichal, Carlos | |
| Taking Note | 7 |
| FR | |
| VENEZUELA Chavizmo at the Crossroads: Moderates, Hardliners and a Regime Under Attack | 8 |
| Ellner, Steve & Rosen, Fred | |
| Colombia: The Right Gathers Momentum | 13 |
| Tate, Winifred | |
| Racial Politics, Racial Identities Race and Racism in the Americas, Part III | 15 |
| Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil | 16 |
| Walker, Sheila | |
| Music and the Formation of Black Identity in Colombia | 21 |
| Wade, Peter | |
| Rap and Revolution: Hip-Hop Comes to Cuba | 28 |
| Olavarria, Margot | |
| The Road to Durban-and Back | 31 |
| Turner, J. Michael | |
| The Making of a Transnational Movement | 36 |
| Delgado-P., Guillermo | |
| Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism | 39 |
| Castillo, R. Aida Hernández | |
| An Expansion of Citizenship in Venezuela | 44 |
| Giordani, Lourdes & Villalón, Maria Eugenia | |
| Nueva York - Diaspora City: U.S. Latinos Between and Beyond | 46 |
| Flores, Juan | |
| Colombia's Indigenous Communities Try to Survive | 53 |
| Leech, Garry M. | |
| Books | 60 |
| Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo |
|