Journal of Latin American studies Vol. 41, part. 2 may 2009

Luisa Farah Schwartzman
Seeing like citizens: unofficial understandings of official racial categories in a Brazilian university

Eduardo Dargent
Determinants of judicial independence: lessons from three ‘cases’ of constitutional courts in Peru (1982–2007)

Leandro Prados de la Escosura
Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America

Isabel Sanz Villarroya
Macroeconomic outcomes and the relative position of Argentina’s economy, 1875–2000

Commentary

Paolo Riguzzi
From globalisation to revolution? The porfirian political economy: an essay on issues and interpretations