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Common-sense definitions of state formation, nationalism and ethnicity must be critically evaluated by analytical strategies such as substantialization, spacialization, aestheticization and temporalization to evolve truly concrete definitions. The ambiguity presently surrounding these terms poses problems both for the scholar and for the politician. Concrete renewed concepts of these terms and a study of their impact on culture will help evolve a concept of culture that stresses homogeneity and interdependence.

Dialogue between postcolonial theory and Latin American studies is reviewed where although some forms of intentional hybridization are contestory, others, such as the aesthetic statism that developed in post revolutionary Mexico after 1920s, are authoritative. Observing the works of foundational thinkers like Jose Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamino, some links in the genealogy of mestizo nationalism in post revolutionary 20th century Mexico are traced.