Azerbaijaniness

This is not to say there was no ambivalence about Russianness and Azeriness (or more specifically, Azerbaijaniness).

There is, however, a different opinion on this: some experts think that the primary self-identification for minorities is connected with Azerbaijaniness, and that ethnic-based self-identification is secondary for them.

It is a question of 'what we invest ourselves in' (Grosz 1995, 184) and how people live Blackness, Whiteness, Azerbaijaniness, Germanness, femaleness or maleness.