Black Is a Country Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Name: Black Is a Country Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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ISBN: 9780674019515

ISBN-10: 0674019512

ISBN-13: 9780674019515

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nikhil Pal Singh

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2005 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly, egalitarian visions that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s and black militants in the 1970s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle. "Black is a Country deserves to be widely read; it is the work of a gifted young scholar that promises to provoke a rethinking of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Nikhil Pal Singh is Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University.



Introduction: Civil Rights, Civic Myths



Rethinking Race and Nation



Reconstructing Democracy



Internationalizing Freedom



Americanizing the Negro



Decolonizing America


Conclusion: Racial Justice beyond Civil Rights


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index