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Right there in that sentence, in this little set of scenes about
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Howard and his experience in D.C., you see him at first being asked by
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his family to identify with a certain version of the
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black middle class, and then finding he is revolted by
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his own difference from that middle class.
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He feels like a black field hand, the darkest of the dark field hand,
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"for all they knew that he didn't," and on 108 we get it in
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very abstract terms. "You finally leave home,
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the Ur of we, and you find another we, another place that's
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just like that, the substitute for that."
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The problem of the Identity Plot is
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the problem of the "I" and the "we."