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Enrique Florescano’s work offers a devastating critique of the Mexican state’s historical relationship with ethnicity. From the colonial repúblicas de indios to the liberal desamortización , from Porfirian scientific racism to post-revolutionary indigenismo , the state has consistently attempted to manage, control, or erase ethnic difference in the name of a unified nation. Yet each attempt has failed because the nation—unlike the state—cannot be decreed from above. A nation is built from memory, from territory, from language, and from ritual: all domains where ethnicity persists, often against the state’s best intentions. etnia+estado+y+nacion+enrique+florescano+pdf