DAVID T. ABALOS is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University. He has lectured and written extensively on multicultural and gender scholarship and also on Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the perspective of the politics of transformation. He is the author of Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political (1986), The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 (Praeger, 1993) and Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• Introduction A Theoretical Perspective: In the Service of What Way of Life? The Personal, Political, Historical, and Social Faces of la Cultura Latina Latinas Overcoming Personal and Political Inequality: Matriarchy in Like Water for Chocolate Teaching Latina and Latino Students Transformation: Its Theory and Practice El Siglio Que Viene: Strategies of Transformation for la comunidad Latina Bibliography Index

DAVID T. ABALOS is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University. He has lectured and written extensively on multicultural and gender scholarship and also on Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the perspective of the politics of transformation. He is the author of Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political (1986), The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 (Praeger, 1993) and Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• Introduction A Theoretical Perspective: In the Service of What Way of Life? The Personal, Political, Historical, and Social Faces of la Cultura Latina Latinas Overcoming Personal and Political Inequality: Matriarchy in Like Water for Chocolate Teaching Latina and Latino Students Transformation: Its Theory and Practice El Siglio Que Viene: Strategies of Transformation for la comunidad Latina Bibliography Index

DAVID T. ABALOS is Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at Seton Hall University. He has lectured and written extensively on multicultural and gender scholarship and also on Latinas and Latinos in the United States from the perspective of the politics of transformation. He is the author of Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political (1986), The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994 (Praeger, 1993) and Strategies of Transformation Toward a Multicultural Society: Fulfilling the Story of Democracy (Praeger, 1996).

• Introduction A Theoretical Perspective: In the Service of What Way of Life? The Personal, Political, Historical, and Social Faces of la Cultura Latina Latinas Overcoming Personal and Political Inequality: Matriarchy in Like Water for Chocolate Teaching Latina and Latino Students Transformation: Its Theory and Practice El Siglio Que Viene: Strategies of Transformation for la comunidad Latina Bibliography Index