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 age in which migrations across boundaries are an increasingly familiar
 part of our individual lives as national borders collapse and are redrawn.
 An age in which nations bind together in regional clusters and eliminate
 old immigration laws, and in which illegal movements from one country
 to another become increasingly desperate as economies fail and wars
 continue to rage.. .Perhaps the answer is to be found in the culture and
 literature of the Caribbean archipelago (132).

 Raphael Dalleo,
 State University of New York, Stony Brook




Rafael L. Ramirez, Victor I. Garcia-Toro
and Ineke Cunningham (eds.)
Caribbean Masculinities: Working Papers
HIV/AIDS Research and Education Center,
San Juan: University of Puerto Rico, 2002.
his anthology of anthropological and sociological scholarship
 on masculinities and sexuality/gender systems spans across the
 Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean as well as Brazil, open-
ing the way for much needed cross-Caribbean cultural studies. All of
the papers were originally presented by members of the Caribbean Mas-
culinities Network at a conference held at the University of Puerto Rico,
Rio Piedras in March 1999, which was sponsored by Proyecto Atlantea
and the University's HIV/AIDS Research and Education Center. In their
introduction, the editors indicate that the articles address many of the
Network's research topics including: representations of gender and sexu-
ality in popular cultural productions; mapping sexual communities, cul-
tures and territories; masculinity and violence; men's health particu-
larly HIV/AIDS and other STDs; and gender relations. Caribbean Mascu-
linities also stresses how gender relations and sexuality are fundamen-
tal to the regulatory power of the State, holding that it attempts to con-
struct, circulate and control expressions of gender and sexuality as well
as resistance to these practices. Also included is an extensive bibliogra-
phy which is indispensable for any researcher looking at contemporary
gender and sexual systems in the Caribbean and its diaspora.
 Though all of the contributors are from the social sciences (sociol-
ogy or anthropology), many use multidisciplinary approaches and a