> Furthermore, the most progressive variety of black nationalism often has a
> pan-Africanist orientation and even a seed for solidarity with all the
> wretched of the earth. This internationalist dimension is most often
> missing from the organic common sense of the white working class in America
> (which is a curious mix of individualism and small-holder populist
> mentality).
I've often wondered if Nineties-style individualism, namely that spectrum from techno-libertarianism to neocon greedheadism, is really more about the rentierization of identity politics than anything else, the transformation of identities into transnational stock options, as it were, as labile and shifting as the latest corporate allegiances. Racial identity, however you want to define the thing, may be where the discontents of nationalism (especially 3rd world nationalism) somehow interact with the latest multinational ideologies -- generating powerful mestizo resistance strategies in the process.
-- Dennis