ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1970s, many writers on the political Left have essentialized nationalisms, much like many writers on the Right have essentialized socialism.1
In this chapter, I argue that not all nationalisms are alike and not all should be dismissed out of hand. On the contrary, in an era in which the United States has reasserted its claims to a new form of empire, progressive, internationalist versions of nationalism are being retrieved, in struggles for national and popular sovereignty. This is especially true in Latin America and Canada, the Western Hemisphere’s regional periphery to the American empire.
