Its Nation Time - 9780228022961

Its Nation TimeA Progressive Defence\nAuthor(s): Jerry White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228022961, 978-0228022961\nSynopsis\nSpeaking at the Congress of African People in September 1970, Amiri Baraka said, In Newark, when we greet each other on the streets, we say, what time is it? We always say, Its nation time! Nationalism is about land and nation, a way of life trying to free itself. National identity and nationhood are too often easily dismissed as retrograde populism or racist exclusion. Instead, they need to be understood as a key part of a vision of globalization that holds the imperatives of diversity and solidarity in a delicate balance.\n\nJerry White offers a defence of the nation based on the assumption that struggles for national identity have often unfolded in ways that should be familiar to those who defend the political standpoint of the progressive left. Having evolved .