Nikhil Pal Singh

Nikhil Pal Singh is associate professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University and the founding faculty director of the NYU Prison Education Program. Singh is the author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004) and editor of Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell (University of California Press, 2010). His new book Race and America’s Long War will be published by University of California Press in the fall of 2017. A second book, Exceptional Empire: Colonialism in the US Cold War, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2018.