Presents a structural perspective on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Incidence of poverty in the region; Absence of sign of improvements in income distribution in the area; Skewed distribution of wealth from the onset of colonization; Post independence distribution of land and mineral wealth; Skewed distribution of human capital.;
Presents the essay Decentering a Discipline: Recent Trends in Latin American Literary Studies, based on a number of books. Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature, by David William Foster; Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?, edited by Gustavo Perez Firmat; Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions From Spanish America, by Lucille Kerr; Other books used in the essay.;
Reviews books on American relations with Latin America. Includes The United States and Somoza, 1933-1956: A Revisionist Look, by Paul Coe Clark Jr; The Rich Neighbor Policy: Rockefeller and Kaiser in Brazil, by Elizabeth Anne Cobbs; Prize Possession: The United States and the Panama Canal, 1903-1979, by John Major.;
