Héctor Díaz Polanco is professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. Lucia Rayas, a sociologist and translator, studied at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, and at the University of California at Riverside. She has translated several books and articles on social sciences and humanities.

• Preface -- Excluded Identities -- Nation Building and the Ethnic Question -- Colonial Policy and Slavery -- Colonial Indigenism -- Indigenism After Independence -- On the Road to Autonomy -- New Ethnic Struggles and Political-Theoretical Transformations -- Foundations of a Regime of Regional Autonomy -- Examples of Regional Autonomy: The USSR, Spain, and Nicaragua -- Prospects for Regional Autonomy -- Epilogue

Héctor Díaz Polanco is professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. Lucia Rayas, a sociologist and translator, studied at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, and at the University of California at Riverside. She has translated several books and articles on social sciences and humanities.

• Preface -- Excluded Identities -- Nation Building and the Ethnic Question -- Colonial Policy and Slavery -- Colonial Indigenism -- Indigenism After Independence -- On the Road to Autonomy -- New Ethnic Struggles and Political-Theoretical Transformations -- Foundations of a Regime of Regional Autonomy -- Examples of Regional Autonomy: The USSR, Spain, and Nicaragua -- Prospects for Regional Autonomy -- Epilogue

Héctor Díaz Polanco is professor and researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en Antropología Social in Mexico City. Lucia Rayas, a sociologist and translator, studied at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, and at the University of California at Riverside. She has translated several books and articles on social sciences and humanities.

• Preface -- Excluded Identities -- Nation Building and the Ethnic Question -- Colonial Policy and Slavery -- Colonial Indigenism -- Indigenism After Independence -- On the Road to Autonomy -- New Ethnic Struggles and Political-Theoretical Transformations -- Foundations of a Regime of Regional Autonomy -- Examples of Regional Autonomy: The USSR, Spain, and Nicaragua -- Prospects for Regional Autonomy -- Epilogue