Christian Davenport is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan, as well as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He is the author of State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace (Cambridge, 2007) and Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (Cambridge, 2010), which won an award for the best book in racial politics and social movements from the American Political Science Association. He is the editor of Repression and Mobilization, with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (2004), and Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics (2000).
Introduction
Part I. Theory: 1. Killing social movements from the outside or the inside
2. Killing social movements from the outside and the inside
Part II. Case: 3. Repression and red squads
4. Record keeping and data collection
Part III. Origins: 5. We shall overcome?: From GOAL to the Freedom Now Party
6. We shall overthrow!: from the Malcolm X Society to the Republic of New Africa
Part IV. Examination: 7. Birth of a black nation
8. To Ocean Hill-Brownsville and b(l)ack
9. New Bethel and the end of the beginning
10. When separatists separate
11. Mississippi: the last stand(off)
Part V. Conclusion: 12. Understanding the death of social movement organizations.
