PDF⋙ Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Despite 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 achi...