Liberated Territory

Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party
Herausgeber: Williams, Yohuru; Lazerow, Jama

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays on the Panther Party's local chapters, as well as essays reconsidering the state of the field in 1960s-, Civil Rights-, black nationalist- and popular history in light of these varied accounts of BPP chapters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343431
• ISBN-10: 0822343436
• Artikelnr.: 25869393

Autorenporträt

Yohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven. Jama Lazerow is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America. They are co-editors of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement, also published by Duke University Press. Jama Lazerow is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers / Yohuru
Williams 1
1. Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In: A Survey / Jama Lazerow and
Yohuru Williams 33
2. The Black Panthers at the Water's Edge: Oakland, Boston, and the New
Bedford "Riots" of 1970 / Jama Lazerow 85
3. "The Power Belongs to Us and We Belong to the Revolutionary Age": The
Alabama Black Liberation Front and the Long Reach of the Black Panther
Party / Robert W. Widell Jr. 136
4. Marching Blind: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Detroit
/ Ahmad A. Rahman 181
5. "Give Them a Cause to Die For": The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee,
1969-77 / Yohuru Williams 232
Epilogue. The Black Panther Party in the Disunited States of America:
Constitutionalism, Watergate, and the Closing of the Americanists' Minds /
Devin Fergus 265
Contributors 295
Index 297