×


 x 

Shopping cart
16%OFFNikhil Pal Singh - Black is a Country - 9780674019515 - V9780674019515
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Black is a Country

€ 54.99
€ 45.96
You save € 9.03!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Black is a Country Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.

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, ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674019515
SKU
V9780674019515
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Nikhil Pal Singh
Nikhil Pal Singh is Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University.

Reviews for Black is a Country
Reflecting several new trends in current scholarship, Singh provides a provocative contribution to civil rights literature. He focuses on a ‘Long Civil Rights Movement,’ which for him covers the New Deal through the Great Society and into the 1970s. The roles of Communism, anti-Communism, and the Cold War loom large as impediments to a radical social change that might have ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Black is a Country


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!