Nikhil Pal Singh is an Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, interested in Palestinian rights and questions of empire and race.
 

"Yet this is also the King who has become part of a mythic nationalist discourse that claims his antiracist imperatives as its own, even as it obscures his significantly more complex, worldly, and radical politics. Indeed, just as King's antiwar stance has been minimized or forgotten, so has the steady incorporation of currents of democratic socialism and black nationalism into his thinking. By the end of his life, King viewed the idea of obtaining civil rights for black individuals as an inadequate framework for combating the economic consequences and cultural legacies of white supremacy."

– Nikhil Pal Singh, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy