maría del carmen baerga-santini is Professor of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. Her most recent publications include “Cuerpos calificados / cuerpos negociados: Sexo, ilegitimidad y racialización en el Puerto Rico decimonónico” (forthcoming article) and “Cuando el amor no basta: Matrimonio y racialización en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX,” Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas (2007). Currently, she is finishing a book-length manuscript on racial dynamics in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico.
karin alejandra rosemblatt is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is author of Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920 – 1950 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and coeditor (with Nancy Appelbaum and Anne Macpherson) of Race and Nation in Modern Latin America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). She is currently at work on a book that traces the movement of ideas...
