Black is a country
Subtitle: race and the unfinished struggle for democracy
By: Nikhil Pal Singh.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Democracy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.