This book is a study guide for a 13-unit television college credit course, Americas.

"Americas is a coproduction of WGBH Boston and Central Television Enterprises for Channel 4, U.K., in association with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, and Tufts University." "From the Annenberg/CPS Collection.

The state of sovereignty and the sovereignty of states / Franklin W. Knight -- The state and development in historical perspective / Peter H. Smith -- The state of economics in Brazil and Latin America: Is the past prologue to the future? / Albert Fishlow -- The state of revolution / Margaret E. Crahan and Peter H. Smith -- Production, reproduction, and the polity : women's strategic and practical gender issues / Helen I. Safa and Cornelia Butler Flora -- The construction of a Latin American feminist identity / Marysa Navarro-Aranguren -- Religion : reconstituting Church and pursuing change / / Margaret E. Crahan -- Remapping culture / Jean Franco -- Transforming memories and histories / Kay B. Warren -- Race, color, and class in the Caribbean / Anthony P. Maingot -- Continent on the move : immigrants and refugeees in the Americas / M. Patricia Fernández Kelly and Alejandro Portes -- The Americans : Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the United States.