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The most critical segment of the book deals with the 19th and 20th centuries. Florescano critiques the Liberal and Revolutionary states for imposing a homogenizing "National Identity" from the top down.

: This text is often used in Latin American studies to understand why Mexico remains a "multi-ethnic" country governed by a "uni-national" political framework. specific historical period covered by Florescano, or are you looking for comparative analysis with other Mexican historians? etnia+estado+y+nacion+enrique+florescano+pdf

The Spanish conquest (1519–1521) did not initiate ethnicity so much as violently reconfigure it. The colonial state (the Viceroyalty of New Spain) imposed a new tripartite system: república de españoles , república de indios , and later the castas . Crucially, Florescano argues, the colonial state recognized indigenous ethnic groups as legal entities with their own governance structures (caciques, cabildos), but only insofar as they accepted Catholic evangelization and colonial taxation. Ethnicity was thus "administrativized"—allowed to survive but stripped of political sovereignty. This created a paradox: the colonial state preserved ethnic identities as a means of social control, thereby ensuring their survival into the independent era. The most critical segment of the book deals