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Singh, Nikhil Pal. "‘Race’ and Nation in the American Century: A Genealogy of Color and Democracy," American Studies Program, Yale University, December 1995.
This dissertation starts with the premise that the question of ‘race’ gained an unprecedented centrality after World War II in the context of the United States’ rise as a global power. This work provides an analysis of the discursive reformulations of American nationalism and national belonging as they were posed in relation to questions of black citizenship and social equality. Finally, it argues that the struggles for global decolonization during this period were directly translated within the U.S. into state-sanctioned projects of moderate ‘racial’ reform, on the one hand, and utopian and transnational conceptions of black liberation, on the other. This work concludes by showing how the demand for color-blindness in America today eludes the complex and enduring significance of black nationality struggles as they have unfolded throughout this period.
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