Mexico’s treatment of mestizaje as a core feature of its people’s national identity similarly blurs the formal distinction between race and nation by literally figuring national identity as raceless. For Benedict Anderson, racism developed within nationalist communities as a product of colonial ideologies of class that “appeared to confirm on a global, modern stage antique conceptions of power and privilege.” most of Anderson’s critics take issue with the inaccuracy of many of his claims involving the origins of nationalism in Latin America and the modular translation of the national form to decolonizing Southeast Asia and Africa. The spatial-temporal gap illustrates another problem with Anderson’s national imaginary thesis: the appearance of a modular form of nationalism results from the imposition—not the willful adaptation—of European nationalism in decolonizing contexts. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.