Notes from the Editors

NOTES FROM THE EDITORS The Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, held in Mexico City, featured a program of excellent scholarship and intellectual engagement in a variety of academic disciplines . Timothy Henderson of Auburn University at Montgomery and Ann González of University of North Carolina at Charlotte organized the History & Social Sciences and Literature & Humanities components of the program respectively. Graciously hosted by the Instituto Mora and expertly arranged by Carmen Collado, the meeting convened 7-10 April, 2010 with the theme of “Memory and Revolution.” One highlight of the conference was the Saturday banquet held in the atrium of the Instituto and featuring esteemed historian Lorenzo Meyer’s thought-provoking keynote speech entitled “México y Estados Unidos: las etapas de una relación tormentosa .” Of the 121 papers presented at the widely attended meeting, the editors submitted the best manuscripts for peer review and ultimately selected eight of them for publication in this issue. These articles represent a diversity of ideas, methodologies, and disciplines in Latin American Studies and contribute significantly to various academic discussions. Customarily, the publication includes the winning paper of the Moseley Prize competition for the best graduate student paper presented at the annual meeting, but this year’s winner, Renata Keller of the University of Texas-Austin, decided to place her paper with another journal. As editors, we are grateful for the aid, insight, and guidance offered by a host of others. We are indebted to the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive evaluations, to our authors for their creativity and diligence, to our colleagues at Wiley for their leadership and cooperation, and to our graduate assistant, Shavon Bell, for her contributions and commitment to see this volume to publication. The Annals Issue has been housed at both UNC Charlotte and Winthrop University, and we greatly appreciate the significant financial and institutional support offered by these great universities. We note especially the institutional support generously offered by Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte, and Debra Boyd, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winthrop. And, as always, we acknowledge with gratitude the efforts of our dedicated readers and contributors to keep the journal moving forward with improvements in quality, profile, and accessibility of the Annals. Jurgen Buchenau and Gregory S. Crider C  2011 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 ...