Colonial and Modern Latin America
Afro-Latin America
Brazil
Race in Latin America
State and Society in Latin America
U.S.-Latin American Relations

Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000 (Oxford University Press, 2004)

The Social Construction of Democracy, coedited with Herrick Chapman (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1995)

Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991)

The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800–1900
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1980)

Arthur Whitaker Book Prize (2005)
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship (2001)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)
Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (1996)
NEH Fellowship (1995)