ABSTRACT
Numerous notions of raciality have been explored in various fields of natural and social sciences, and in socio-political life. In this chapter, the author offers an approach towards such an understanding, one that, if viable, might serve as a context for a fuller exploration of forms of "racial solidarity" worth fostering in the present and future. While there are many meanings and uses of "solidarity," common to many is the idea of "a mutual attachment between individuals, encompassing two levels: a factual level of actual common ground between the individuals and a normative level of mutual obligations to aid each other, as and when should be necessary". Bonding and cooperation among individuals and groupings, then, were fundamental to meeting the needs of survival, thus to the evolutionary development and persistence of the various forms of human sociality. The anthropologically contingent necessity of solidaristic sociality required for the evolutionary persistent of Homo sapiens continental populations came to be characterized as "racial."
