IV Reviews : Structures of Dependency

Abstract

We focus on the collection of papers edited by Frank Bonilla and Robert Girling, Struc tures of Dependency, Stanford, 1973, Pp. 263. This volume represents the outcome of a research seminar on dependency held during the winter quarter 1972 at Stanford Uni versity. The seminar consisted of five faculty members and fifteen students, including Brazil ians, Venezuelans, a Panamanian, a Jamaican, an Argentinian, Blacks, Chicanos, and Puerto Ricans. It provided an opportunity for politically concerned persons to explore ways of establish ing a common framework for the analysis of inequality and dependence in and among nations. Terry Dietz-Fee is a graduate student in political science at the University of California, River side, who is interested in Chile. Gilbert González is Assistant Professor in the Program in Com parative Culture of the University of California, Irvine, who has recently completed his doctoral dissertation on education and the Chicano community.