In Search of the Black Panther Party (eBook, PDF)

New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
Redaktion: Jama Lazerow, Lazerow

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover called "e;the single greatest threat to the nation's internal security"e; has been celebrated and denigrated, deified and vilified. Rarely, though, has it received the sort of nuanced analysis offered in this rich interdisciplinary collection. Historians, along with scholars in the fields of political science, English, sociology, and criminal justice, examine the Panthers and their present-day legacy with regard to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media. The essays consider the Panthers as distinctly American revolutionaries, as the products of specific local conditions, and as parts of other movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.One contributor evaluates the legal basis of the Panthers' revolutionary struggle, explaining how they utilized and critiqued the language of the Constitution. Others explore the roles of individuals, looking at a one-time Panther imprisoned for a murder he did not commit and an FBI agent who monitored the activities of the Panthers' Oakland branch. Contributors assess the Panthers' relations with Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets, and the Peace and Freedom Party. They discuss the Party's use of revolutionary aesthetics, and they show how the Panthers manipulated and were manipulated by the media. Illuminating some of the complexities involved in placing the Panthers in historical context, this collection demonstrates that the scholarly search for the Black Panthers has only just begun.Contributors. Bridgette Baldwin, Davarian L. Baldwin, David Barber, Rod Bush, James T. Campbell, Tim Lake, Jama Lazerow, Edward P. Morgan, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Roz Payne, Robert O. Self, Yohuru Williams, Joel Wilson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388326
• Artikelnr.: 54932369

Autorenporträt

Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Editors’ Note xi
Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now? /
Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams 1
Part I. The Panthers through the Historian’s Lens
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era / Robert O. Self 15
Part II. The Panthers as American Revolutionaries
Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence / Rod Bush
59
In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and
Discourses of Self-Defense / Bridgette Baldwin 67
Part III. From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the
Black Panthers
Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History / James T. Campbell 97
“A Rebel All His Life”: The Unexpected Story of Frank “Parky” Grace / Jama
Lazerow 104
WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special
Case Agent Williams A. Cohendet / Roz Payne 158
Part IV. Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a “Revolutionary Vanguard”
Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My! /
Yohuru Williams 183
Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers
and the Peace and Freedom Party / Joel Wilson 191
Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School and Panthers on Black
Revolution / David Barber 223
Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black
Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967–1973 / Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar 252
Part V. Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American
Imagination
Introductory Comment: “Culture Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation”:
The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization /
Davarian L. Baldwin 289
The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution:
The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a
Revolutionary Life / Tim Lake 306
Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party / Edward P.
Morgan 324
Contributors 375
Index 377