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Nikhil Pal Singh

Nikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and Faculty Diretor of the NYU Prison Education Program. His most recent book is Race and America’s Long War. 

Articles

More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

Nikhil Pal Singh
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
Nikhil Pal Singh

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COVID-19 can set the terms for social transformation.
Nikhil Pal Singh

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