%0 Journal Article %T Leer la identidad venezolana a la luz de las comunidades ¨¦tnicas biculturales de Am¨¦rica Latina %A Gonz¨¢lez Ordosgoitti %A Enrique Al¨ª %J Revista Venezolana de Econom¨ªa y Ciencias Sociales %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this article, the author offers reflections about the way of conceiving venezuelan identity from an ethnic perspective, taking into account particularly bicultural and binational ethnic communities. in the first section, there is a brief introduction to the latin american ethnic system; in the second, a theoretical reflection over the possible relationships between identity and ethnic groups; and in the third, the author speculates about the implications of all this for our reading of the formation of a venezuelan identity from the nineteenth century onwards. more than answers, the article presents a series of doubts. %K identity %K ethnic groups %K communities %K bicultural ethnic groups %K venezuela %K latin america. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-64112009000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en