Ebook: Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Despite black gains in modern America, racism’s end is not yet in sight. 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 20th century.