Abstract
As North Americanists, we share the imperative and capacity to give sense and depth to today's epistemological and empathic divides, to connect disparate sites of struggle to overarching structural inequalities, and to glimpse how it could be otherwise. As two junior faculty members with precarious positions as visiting associate professor (David) and postdoc (Megan), and respective research among white and Latinx working-class populations on the East and West coasts, we have been asking ourselves what particular interventions an anthropology of North America can and should make in the discipline and beyond. Why might this particular regional grouping be good to think with at this point in history?