Who Defines Indigenous?: Identities, Development, Intellectuals, and the State in Northern MexicoFor years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous identities. But is the reinforcement of ethnic identity among migrant groups always a process of self liberation? In this surprising study, Carmen Martnez Novo draws on her ethnographic research of the Mixtec Indians' migration from the southwest of Mexico