In Erin O’Connor’s academic blog, she details the incoming orientation for Brown frosh-of-color.

That pomp is also a politics: the TWTP web site offers a remarkable explanation for why well-heeled, privileged Brown students should choose to call themselves “third world” students. It’s a remarkable explanation, which I quote here in full:
Students first began using the term “Third World” over “minority” because of the negative connotations of inferiority and powerlessness with which the word “minority” is often associated. Although the term “Third World” may have negative socioeconomic connotations outside of Brown, Third World students here continue to use the term in the context originating form the Civil Rights Movement.
Frantz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth (1961), urged readers to band together against oppression and colonialism, by pioneering a “Third Way” meaning an alternative to the ways of the first world (U.S. & Europe) and also the second world (USSR & Eastern Europe). When students adopt the term “Third World”, they use it in the sense of a cultural model of empowerment and liberation.
Brown students of color continue to use the term “Third World” in a similar fashion: to describe a consciousness which recognizes the commonalities and links shared by their diverse communities. This consciousness at Brown also reflects a right, a willingness, and a necessity for people of color to define themselves instead of being defined by others.
The concept of “Third World” has special meaning for minority students at Brown. It is not to be confused with the economic definition of the term used commonly in our society today, but understood as a term that celebrates the cultures of Arab, Asian, Black, Latino, Multiracial and Native Americans.
TWTP thus understands itself as a local materialization of Frantz Fanon’s vision of resistance to oppression and colonialism–a vision that was explicitly violent in nature: “Violence,” Fanon argued, “is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.” The TWTP website glosses over the fact that Fanon’s “Third Way” was the way of revolution, that his notion of liberation involved completely destroying the present world order. But in affiliating itself with Fanon’s vision and vocabulary, TWTP nonetheless expresses a distinctly militant perspective on what exactly constitutes racial empowerment. The Wretched of the Earth, hailed by TWTP as the origin of Brown’s ideal “cultural model of empowerment and liberation,” was hailed by its publisher as “the handbook for the black revolution.” A Marxist account of Fanon’s experiences in Algeria during its struggle for independence, the book outlines the role of class conflict in the creation of a new nation’s national consciousness, arguing that postcolonial African nations will implode if they merely replace white leaders with black ones while conserving an essentially bourgeois capitalist social structure.

I don’t see the priviledged underpriviledged of Brown lubing up their AK-51’s and packing Semtex into suicide belts. But I do see hpw a national leadership weaned on Fanon (and the leadership of this generation was) could be paralyzed into inaction by the guilt this ideology lays on them, and more, be inwardly sympathetic to the ‘liberating purity’ of the Palestinian and Al Queida ‘militants’.