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Notes
I want to thank my friends and colleagues for their insight and suggestions regarding this review essay. These include Pedro M. Hernández, William Kelleher, Yvonne Lassalle, Johanna Lessinger, Alejandro Lugo, Marvette Peréz, Mérida Rúa, and the students in Anthropology 269, Latinas and Latinos Challenging the Anthropological Landscape, at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in the Fall of 1996.