Lazerow / Williams In Search of the Black Panther Party

New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8832-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Interdisciplinary essays reevaluate the Black Panthers and their legacy in relation to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazerow, Jama

Williams, Yohuru

Weitere Mitwirkende

Self, Robert O.

Bush, Rod

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jama Lazerow is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America.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.