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Presented is a bibliography of 251 works (both books & articles) on ethnic groups & issues of national affiliation. The topics in which the works are grouped are: (1) elements for the study of ethnic group & national issues; (2) structure & social formation of ethnicity; (3) "integration" & the national question -- the destruction of traditional societies; & (4) defense of the traditional structures of ethnic groups. S. Karganovic

El autor sostiene que se puede observar de como todas las instituciones - estado, las organizaciones indigenas, los actores civiles y religiosos, las ONGs, las agencias de desarrollo, las organizaciones internacionales - participan de uno u otro modo, y por variadas razones e intereses, en la forja del discurso de la etnicidad, favoreciendo a la vez un proceso de etnogenesis, la ratificacion y legitimacion de una frontera etnica y el diseno de un nuevo actor. En realidad se trata de un proyecto que no puede existir sino cuestionando el anterior discurso del modelo nacional-populista, apartandose de lo que era su concepcion de lo moderno, de la cultura y de la nacion. (DÜI-Rol)

Independence in Mexico created only an appearance of choice in the setting up of the new nation-state; given the Hispano-American roots of the insurgents, the state could only be organized along the lines of a homogeneous linguistic & ethnic centralism. Ethnic conflicts between the indigenous population & the Hispanics, which abounded in the 1800s, demonstrated that any autonomy given the Indians carried a risk of fragmentation, which the authoritarian national state was unwilling to take. Viewed in that light, the proposal of the Mexican Communist Party in the 1930s that the ethnic problem be solved by a policy of small nationalities, patterned after the practice then current in the USSR, ignored the fact that potentially dangerous ethnicism poses an unacceptable threat to the homogenous state. A program for the cross-fertilization of the various ethnic traditions of Mexico is outlined. It both rejects the forced cultural leveling which has heretofore been the policy, & urges the spontaneous convergence of constituent cultures. S. Karganovic.

This article explores the effects of different individual level factors on the vote to eight nationalist parties in Belgium, Britain & Spain. Specifically, we check whether the two variables associated to the ethnoregionalist category, that is ethnic identities & claims for regional self-government, are the main factors explaining electoral mobilization for the eight parties. Our analysis also considers other explanations from the literature on nationalism as control variables: these are social stratification factors, religion, ideology, & a protest vote. Empirical results are contrasted at two levels: regional & general elections. The results of our analysis allow us to suggest a characterization, based upon the ethnoregionalist category, of the eight nationalist parties considered. Finally, we also explore possible reasons behind different types of mobilization. Tables, Appendixes, References. Adapted from the source document.