Publication

2005-11-30 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780674019515
  • Open LibraryOL7691646M

Classifications

  • LCCE185.61.S6144 2005
  • LCCE185.61 .S6144 2005

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.

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Other Editions

  • Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for DemocracyPaperbackHarvard University Press2005-11-30

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