ABSTRACT
Many theories of globalization and nationalism share the same rhetorical space in that much of the discourse is, according to Carla Freeman, ostensibly “masculinist.”1 This masculinist bent by and large has much to do with the narratives assigned to what I would call the project(s) of globalization. By this I mean that the ways in which globalization and nationalism are articulated often consider the already existing social strata without imagining how categories and practices deemed as fundamental-gender categories and roles, namely-can no longer be determined as such. So to begin anew means to examine what lies at the base of the grand narratives of globalization and nationalism and to unpack what is taken as fundamental. I propose examining an earlier site that might suggest ways in which to enact language that reflects the complexity of current-day global transformations of gender. The movement of black nationalism in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s provides such an example.
