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September, 2007
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Black is a Country
Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

By Nikhil Pal Singh
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 285. Notes, index. $16.95.)

In this critical volume, Nikhil Pal Singh demonstrates why racism in America is still an issue. He argues that existing struggles have resulted from American imperialism, internationalism, and neocolonialism, movements that have undermined democratic engagement in and outside of the United States. Singh's subtitle, "Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy," suggests that black African descendants continue to be traumatized by a type of neo-liberalism that critiques white supremacy and racial capitalism, but does not include blacks as complete partakers of the democratic ideal. Within this context, Singh writes convincingly that global democracy remains an unfinished project because its ideals are linked to superficial notions of universalism, paternalism, and American excep- tionalism, all of which prevent blacks from engaging in processes and positions that would help to dismantle global racism and foster transnationalist politics that might make democracy a universal reality. Connected to this global perspective is a black reality that recognizes freedom as an ideological construction, dictated by race and the ideals of white supremacy, that sees democracy as a praxis that involves protest and blacks' right to act as their own agents of change. . . .
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