Nikhil Singh
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists around the world. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America's Long War examines the relationship between war,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Upon his father's death, Salem inherits a mansion as well as an unfinished battle with creatures from another world, which requires him to seek the help of his guardian familiar and the colorful performers of Dr. Kinoshita's Circus of Unearthly Delights.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An essential primer for the thoughtful citizen. Since the 2016 election, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have debated a startling Is fascism happening here? Some argue that fascism has arrived and, to grasp the challenge it poses, we must gain insight from Europe's past, lest American democracy succumb. But others question whether this Eurocentric notion truly reflects our political moment, or exemplifies a provincial American...