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 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.
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