Nikhil Pal Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 760298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikhil Pal Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikhil Pal |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH N P |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5312-0823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Marxism and the Antinomies of Racial Capitalism
This essay offers a genealogy of the term "racial capitalism" as it has been used to reflect upon the promise and limitations of Marxism for understanding racism. The essay departs from Cedric Robinson's important history and theory of black radicalism, Black Marxism and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition, which first established the provenance of the idea of racial capitalism for scholarly inquiry. It proceeds by outlining a longer intell…
Race and America's Long War
Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America’s Long War examines the relationship between war, politics…
On Race, Violence, and So-Called Primitive Accumulation
In light of recent historiography that increasingly emphasizes the centrality of slavery to the origins of capitalism, this essay returns to Marx, especially Capital, volume 1, to rethink the relationships among capitalist abstraction, violence, and racial differentiation
The Whiteness of Police
This essay considers the emergence of the concept of police power and the institution of policing in the United States in relation to the development and maintenance of projects of enslavement, settler colonialism, racial domination, and overseas conquest over time. It speculates that whiteness and policing have become coconstitutive through a long historical process, one that continues to define and constellate the present
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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 recogni…
Disciplining American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
Disciplining American Studies?:A Response to the Presidential Address Nikhil Pal Singh (bio) In his fascinating presidential address, Phil Deloria asks us to take a deep breath and consider the roots and branches of American studies as collective interdisciplinary practices and institutional locations. This is a brave intervention. Eschewing the grand critical gesture or politically engaged polemic, Deloria risks dulling us with the mundane detai…
Cold War
This essay explores the imperial and colonial genealogies of the Nazi Holocaust as a form of industrialized killing. It argues that cold-war discourse, and particularly the theory of totalitarianism, enacts a displacement of these outside the ambit of Western history and theory. The continuity and disavowal of colonial violence, in this sense, frames the era of decolonization, which is told as a story of cold-war rivalry and anticommunist vigilan…
The Afterlife of Fascism
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Afterlife of Fascism Nikhil Singh Nikhil Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Nikhil Singh; The Afterlife of Fascism. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 2006; 105 (1): 71–93. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Black Is a Country
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
The Spectacle of Empire
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. By Amy Kaplan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 260 pages. $37.50 (cloth). The collapse of the twenty-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, was widely heralded in the U.S. press as vindication of the Bush administration's "Operation Iraqi Freedom." The U.S. army was not an army of conquest, but one of liberation. The Iraqi people in turn welcomed the…
Cold War Redux: "On the "New Totalitarianism
Research Article| January 01 2003 Cold War Redux: On the “New Totalitarianism” Nikhil Pal Singh Nikhil Pal Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 171–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy Nikhil Pal Singh* (bio) In this essay I will begin to sketch a provisional history for the culture wars in the United States, in order to understand how the problematic we engage today in the name of multiculturalism emerges and gains a functioning intellectual value and role. In general, the current discussion that counterposes multiculturalism and universalism as principal, opposed terms in t…
Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800
Research Article| May 01 1995 Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800 Nikhil Pal Singh Nikhil Pal Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 214–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-214 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nikhil Pal Singh; Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800. Radical History Review 1 May 1995; 1995 (62): 214–218. doi…
The Whiteness of Police
This essay considers the emergence of the concept of police power and the institution of policing in the United States in relation to the development and maintenance of projects of enslavement, settler colonialism, racial domination, and overseas conquest over time. It speculates that whiteness and policing have become coconstitutive through a long historical process, one that continues to define and constellate the present
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy Nikhil Pal Singh* (bio) In this essay I will begin to sketch a provisional history for the culture wars in the United States, in order to understand how the problematic we engage today in the name of multiculturalism emerges and gains a functioning intellectual value and role. In general, the current discussion that counterposes multiculturalism and universalism as principal, opposed terms in t…
On Race, Violence, and So-Called Primitive Accumulation
In light of recent historiography that increasingly emphasizes the centrality of slavery to the origins of capitalism, this essay returns to Marx, especially Capital, volume 1, to rethink the relationships among capitalist abstraction, violence, and racial differentiation
The Afterlife of Fascism
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Afterlife of Fascism Nikhil Singh Nikhil Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Nikhil Singh; The Afterlife of Fascism. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 2006; 105 (1): 71–93. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Disciplining American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
Disciplining American Studies?:A Response to the Presidential Address Nikhil Pal Singh (bio) In his fascinating presidential address, Phil Deloria asks us to take a deep breath and consider the roots and branches of American studies as collective interdisciplinary practices and institutional locations. This is a brave intervention. Eschewing the grand critical gesture or politically engaged polemic, Deloria risks dulling us with the mundane detai…
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
The Spectacle of Empire
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. By Amy Kaplan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 260 pages. $37.50 (cloth). The collapse of the twenty-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, was widely heralded in the U.S. press as vindication of the Bush administration's "Operation Iraqi Freedom." The U.S. army was not an army of conquest, but one of liberation. The Iraqi people in turn welcomed the…
Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800
Research Article| May 01 1995 Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800 Nikhil Pal Singh Nikhil Pal Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 214–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-214 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nikhil Pal Singh; Sex and Sexuality in the U.S. Since 1800. Radical History Review 1 May 1995; 1995 (62): 214–218. doi…
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy
Culture/Wars: Recoding Empire in an Age of Democracy Nikhil Pal Singh* (bio) In this essay I will begin to sketch a provisional history for the culture wars in the United States, in order to understand how the problematic we engage today in the name of multiculturalism emerges and gains a functioning intellectual value and role. In general, the current discussion that counterposes multiculturalism and universalism as principal, opposed terms in t…
Cold War Redux: "On the "New Totalitarianism
Research Article| January 01 2003 Cold War Redux: On the “New Totalitarianism” Nikhil Pal Singh Nikhil Pal Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 171–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-171 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Black Is a Country
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
The Spectacle of Empire
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. By Amy Kaplan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 260 pages. $37.50 (cloth). The collapse of the twenty-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, was widely heralded in the U.S. press as vindication of the Bush administration's "Operation Iraqi Freedom." The U.S. army was not an army of conquest, but one of liberation. The Iraqi people in turn welcomed the…
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
The Afterlife of Fascism
Research Article| January 01 2006 The Afterlife of Fascism Nikhil Singh Nikhil Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-1-71 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Nikhil Singh; The Afterlife of Fascism. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 2006; 105 (1): 71–93. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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 recogni…
Disciplining American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
Disciplining American Studies?:A Response to the Presidential Address Nikhil Pal Singh (bio) In his fascinating presidential address, Phil Deloria asks us to take a deep breath and consider the roots and branches of American studies as collective interdisciplinary practices and institutional locations. This is a brave intervention. Eschewing the grand critical gesture or politically engaged polemic, Deloria risks dulling us with the mundane detai…
Cold War
This essay explores the imperial and colonial genealogies of the Nazi Holocaust as a form of industrialized killing. It argues that cold-war discourse, and particularly the theory of totalitarianism, enacts a displacement of these outside the ambit of Western history and theory. The continuity and disavowal of colonial violence, in this sense, frames the era of decolonization, which is told as a story of cold-war rivalry and anticommunist vigilan…
The Whiteness of Police
This essay considers the emergence of the concept of police power and the institution of policing in the United States in relation to the development and maintenance of projects of enslavement, settler colonialism, racial domination, and overseas conquest over time. It speculates that whiteness and policing have become coconstitutive through a long historical process, one that continues to define and constellate the present
On Race, Violence, and So-Called Primitive Accumulation
In light of recent historiography that increasingly emphasizes the centrality of slavery to the origins of capitalism, this essay returns to Marx, especially Capital, volume 1, to rethink the relationships among capitalist abstraction, violence, and racial differentiation
Race and America's Long War
Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America’s Long War examines the relationship between war, politics…
Black Marxism and the Antinomies of Racial Capitalism
This essay offers a genealogy of the term "racial capitalism" as it has been used to reflect upon the promise and limitations of Marxism for understanding racism. The essay departs from Cedric Robinson's important history and theory of black radicalism, Black Marxism and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition, which first established the provenance of the idea of racial capitalism for scholarly inquiry. It proceeds by outlining a longer intell…
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