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Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy / Nikhil Pal Singh.

Title: Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy / Nikhil Pal Singh.
Author: Singh, Nikhil Pal
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

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Description

285 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened, to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W.E.B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle." "Finding racism embedded within the universalizing tones of reform-minded liberalism at home and global democratic imperatives abroad, race radicals alienated many who viewed them as dangerous and divisive. Few wanted to hear their message then, or even now; and yet, as Singh argues, their passionate skepticism about the political promises made on behalf of the U.S. liberal democracy remains as indispensable to the project of racial justice today as it ever was."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Civil rights, civil myths -- Rethinking race and nation -- Reconstructing democracy -- Internationalizing freedom -- Americanizing the Negro -- Decolonizing America -- Racial justice beyond civil rights.

ISBN

067401300X
9780674013001
0674019512
9780674019515

LCCN

2003067740

OCLC

54046347
SCSB-10189453

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library