This seventh issue in the ICA Documents series grew out of a day conference at the ICA in February 1988. The conference speakers, whose papers are reproduced in this document, took up questions of race, ethnicity, nationhood and representation. Contributors include Kobena Mercer, Stuart Hall, Colin MacCabe, Judith Williamson, Coco Fusco, June Givanni, Alan Fountain, Paul Gilroy and James A. Snead.