The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University
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Nikhil Pal Singh

Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis , History ; Director of the Graduate Program in American Studies
Yale University, American Studies, Ph.D.
Harvard College, Social Studies, A.B. Magna Cum Laude

Areas of Research/Interest: Race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy.

Select Publications:
Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

“The Afterlife of Fascism,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Winter 2006, pp. 71-93.

Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004). Winner 2005 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award sponsored by the Organization of American Historians; Winner 2005 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; Winner 2005

Washington State Book Award.

The Afro-Asian Century, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique, co-edited with Andrew Jones (Durham: Duke University Press), Winter 2003.

“Toward an Effective Anti-Racism,” in Manning Marable, ed., Beyond the Ebony Tower, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 10-33.

“Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy,” American Quarterly, September 1998, pp. 471-522.

“The Black Panthers and the 'Underdeveloped Country' of the Left," in Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Reflections and Scholarship (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998), pp. 57-105.

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