Since Amazon enables you to see inside this text, I do not want to invest much time to describe the sections in this book. Suffice is to say that Applebaum and collaborators have successfully achieved the goal of presenting a theoretically solid argument matched with superb historical research. I use it in my Race and Ethnicity in Latin America class, an upper division and Honor undegraduate class. In my view, Race and Nation has been a success in my course because of the carefully chosen and edited contributions---high scholarly work in an accessible English. It has captured students' interest. They are reading it!!!! I strongly recomment the adoption of this book.