| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Gloria P. Totoricagüena. Identity, Culture, and Politics in the Basque Diaspora. (The Basque Series.) Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2004. Pp. xix, 273. $39.95.

In this study of the Basque diaspora in six countries, Gloria P. Totoricagüena develops several lines of argument. She maintains that since the inception of Basque migration to the Americas in the fifteenth century, under the aegis of the Castilian crown, there has been an unbroken thread of ethnic consciousness within Basque diaspora communities. In recent times, she argues, this has manifested itself in these communities' primary concern with cultural issues and in their relatively apolitical stance. Thus she rejects the claims by "instrumentalist" social scientists that all ethnic groups retain their old identity in order to achieve economic and political advantages, arguing instead that in the case of the Basque diaspora it provides "a sense of communal belonging and a simultaneous individual sense of self-selected uniqueness" (p. 202). The author is also particularly interested in the impact of globalization on these communities, pointing out that they have used new technologies to keep in touch more effectively. This fact questions the notion that globalization will necessarily lead to cultural homogenization.

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