Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy
This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most significant revolutionary organization in the later 20th century.
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Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy
This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most significant revolutionary organization in the later 20th century.
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Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy

Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy

Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy

Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy

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This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most significant revolutionary organization in the later 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135298395
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/08/2014
Series: New Political Science Reader
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Kathleen Cleaver, currently Professor of Public Policy at Emory University, worked full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and afterwards became the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party. Returning to the United States after sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she subsequently earned both a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. George Katsiaficas is a long-time activist as well as Editor of the journal New Political Science and author of The Imagination of the New Left: A GlobalAnalysis of 1968. His book, The Subversion of Politics:European Autonomous Social Movements and theDecolonization of Everyday Life, won the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. He teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

Table of Contents

Introduction by George Katsiaficas I. Revisiting the Liberation Struggle Repressions Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party, Akinyele Umoja Global Solidarity: The Black Panter Party in the International Arean, Michael L. Clemons and Charles E. Jones A Life in the Party: A Historical an dRetrospective Examination of the Projections and Legacies of the Black Panther Party (excerpts), Mumia Abu-Jamal Mobilizing For Mumia Abu-Jamal In Paris, Kathleen Neal Cleaver II. Understanding the Fight for Freedom Every Nation Struggling to be Free has a Right to Struggle, a Duty to Struggle, geronimo ji Jaga To Disrupt, Discredit, and Destroy: The FBI'S Secret War Against the Black Panther Party, Ward Churchill The Split in the Party, Don Cox Women, Power, and Revolution, Kathleen Neal Cleaver Black Fighting Formations: Their Strengths, Weaknesses and Potentialities, Russell Shoats III. Capturing the Imagination of the Movement Organization and Movement: The Case of the Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention of 1970, George Katsiaficas The Influences of the Black Panter Party (USA) on the Vanguard Party of the Bahamas, 1972-1987. John T. McCartney Cuba, The Black Panther Party and the US Black Movement in the 1960s: Issues of Security, Ruth Reitan Revolutionary Art is a Tool for Liberation: Emory Douglas and Protest Aesthetics at the Black Panther, Erika Doss White Radicals, Black Panthers and a Sense of Fulfillment, Stew Albert IV. Continuing the Resistance Shadow of a Clue, Errol Anthony Henderson Tracking Down the Empirical Legacy of the Black Panther Party (or Notes on the Perils of Pursuing the Panthers), Claudia Dahlerus and Christian Davenport Remembering King's Assassination, Kathleen Neal Cleaver Louisiana Panthers Endure 27 Years of Solitary Confinement for a Murder They Did Not Commit, Scott Fleming Afterword: Rediscovering the Black Panther Party, Victor Wallis Documents: The Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party (1966) Workshop Reports from the Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention (1970) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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