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Nationalism

The philosophy in which one promotes the interests of one's own country or ethnic group over others. For example, nationalism may advocate secession of a region to form a new country in which one's own ethnic group predominates. What qualifies as a "nation" in nationalist terms is a matter of some disagreement.

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From this vantage point, Clotelle's devotion to the freedmen seems informed by the same proto-nationalist self-help philosophy that would dominate the post-Reconstruction period.

The "unguarded expressions of the feelings of the negroes": gender, slave resistance, and William Wells Brown's Revisions of 'Clotel.'

The antecedents of African political organisation in post-conquest Southern Rhodesia were elitist proto-nationalist movements which took the form of mutual-aid, self-help and ethnic-cultural organisations during the interwar years.

Mlambo, Alois S, A History of Zimbabwe

In this respect, vernacular theatre was a proto-nationalist media that preceded even the ilustrados' engagement with the promise of the foreign.

The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

The creole directorate of the loose independence movement, on the other hand, struggled toward a proto-nationalist vision of an autonomous nation-state in which active political citizenship would be limited to a white native elite and a penumbra of ethnically mixed secondary players.

Agrarian rebellion and defense of community: meaning and collective violence in late colonial and independence-era Mexico

In the aftermath of their defeat, the Junker joined in an odd underground alliance with German liberals and proto-nationalists to combat French hegemony.