001478722 000__ 06885nam\a22008055i\4500 001478722 001__ 1478722 001478722 003__ DE-B1597 001478722 005__ 20231026034953.0 001478722 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001478722 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001478722 008__ 220524t20212004mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001478722 020__ $$a9780674043718 001478722 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674043718$$2doi 001478722 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)584791 001478722 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1257324820 001478722 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001478722 0410_ $$aeng 001478722 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001478722 050_4 $$aE185.61 001478722 072_7 $$aHIS036060$$2bisacsh 001478722 08204 $$a323.173$$222 001478722 1001_ $$aSingh, Nikhil Pal, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001478722 24510 $$aBlack Is a Country :$$bRace and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy /$$cNikhil Pal Singh. 001478722 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2021] 001478722 264_4 $$c©2004 001478722 300__ $$a1 online resource (295 p.) 001478722 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001478722 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001478722 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001478722 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001478722 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001478722 520__ $$aDespite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. 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. It is through the words and thought of key black intellectuals, like Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, C. L. R. James, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and others, as well as movement activists like Malcolm X and Black Panthers, that vital new ideas emerged and circulated. Their most important achievement was to create and sustain a vibrant, black public sphere broadly critical of U.S. social, political, and civic inequality. Finding racism hidden within the universalizing tones of reform-minded liberalism at home and global democratic imperatives abroad, race radicals alienated many who saw them as dangerous and separatist. Few wanted to hear their message then, or even now, and yet, as Singh argues, their passionate skepticism about the limits of U.S. democracy remains as indispensable to a meaningful reconstruction of racial equality and universal political ideals today as it ever was. Table of Contents: Introduction: Civil Rights, Civic Myths 1. Rethinking Race and Nation 2. Reconstructing Democracy 3. Internationalizing Freedom 4. Americanizing the Negro 5. Decolonizing America Conclusion: Racial Justice beyond Civil Rights Notes Acknowledgments Index Reviews of this book: In this passionate, conscientiously documented and scholarly work, University of Washington historian Singh reaches beyond the 'short civil rights era' (roughly 1954 to the mid-'60s) to recover 'the more complex and contentious racial history of the long civil rights era,' reaching from the New Deal to the Great Society.As a historical manifesto, this significant contribution to black intellectual history leads directly to the conclusion that current demand for color-blind policy 'is a product of the steady erasure of the legacy of the unfinished struggles against white supremacy.'.The analysis of political philosophy for the period makes a first-rate contribution to African-American intellectual history.--Publishers WeeklyReviews of this book: Singh argues persuasively that the black struggle for social justice has been for universal rights that benefit the nation as a whole and can represent a model of democracy. His historiography and analysis are important and represent a new generation of historians examining the Civil Rights Movement and race in America from fresh perspectives.--Sherri L. Barnes, Library JournalBlack is a Country is a work of great urgency; it is one of those books you carry with you, read over and over again, and "e often. Nikhil Singh puts to rest our national founding myth that America was always a source of "justice for all." Instead, he finds within the black radical critique of U.S. racial capitalism a more inclusive, global, and universalist vision which has the potential of renewing democracy and dismantling racism once and for all.--Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University and author of Freedom DreamsBlack is a Country is a beautifully, written, elegantly argued, and exhaustively researched study of the links between African American social movements and new ways of knowing. From his skilled exegesis of 1930s writings by W.E.B. Du Bois through provocative arguments about the prominence of the Black Panther Party during the 1960s to his sophisticated understanding of the limits of both multiculturalism and 'color blind' interchangeability, Singh presents challeng 001478722 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001478722 546__ $$aIn English. 001478722 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. 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