Title: Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy /
Authors: Singh, Nikhil Pal.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: African Americans Civil rights History; African Americans Politics and government; Democracy United States History; Racism Political aspects United States History; Noirs américains Droits Histoire; Noirs américains Politique et gouvernement; Démocratie États-Unis Histoire; Racisme Aspect politique États-Unis Histoire; African Americans Civil rights.; African Americans Politics and government.; Democracy; Politics and government; Race relations Political aspects; Racism Political aspects; Rassendiscriminatie.; Rassenvraagstuk.; Politieke aspecten.; Negers.; Intellectuelen.; Bürgerrecht; Ethnische Beziehungen; Schwarze; United States Politics and government; United States Race relations Political aspects.; États-Unis Politique et gouvernement; États-Unis Relations raciales Aspect politique.; United States; USA; USA.; Schwarze.
Abstract: "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.