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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 "the single greatest threat to the nation's internal security" 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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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	31 octobre 2006
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780822388326
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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In Search of theBlack Panther Party

In Search of the Black Panther Party

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, editors

Duke University Press Durham and London 2006

∫2006 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$

Typeset in Galliard by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

The editors gratefully acknowledge the ﬁnancial support of Wheelock College.

For Buddy, Max, and Dylan—freethinkers, all! For Karlyn, Mason, Asa, and Ella

Contents

ixAcknowledgments

xi Editors’ Note

1 Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now?Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams

PART ONE The Panthers through the Historian’s Lens

15 The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era Robert O. Self

PART TWO The Panthers as American Revolutionaries

59 Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence Rod Bush

67 In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and Discourses of Self-DefenseBridgette Baldwin

PART THREE From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the Black Panthers

97 Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History James T. Campbell

104 ‘‘A Rebel All His Life’’: The Unexpected Story of Frank ‘‘Parky’’ GraceJama Lazerow

158 WACing O√: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World offbi Special Case Agent William A. CohendetRoz Payne

PART FOUR Vanguard’’

Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a ‘‘Revolutionary

183 Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My!Yohuru Williams

191 Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom PartyJoel Wilson

223 Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School the Panthers on Black RevolutionDavid Barber

252 Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967–1973 Je√rey O. G. Ogbar

PART FIVE Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American Imagination

289 Introductory Comment: ‘‘Culture Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation’’: The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of DecolonizationDavarian L. Baldwin

306 The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a Revolutionary LifeTim Lake

324 Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party Edward P. Morgan

375 Contributors

377 Index

Acknowledgments

This book is the product of many hands, not least of which are the many contributors who endured our repeated requests for more. First, however, we would like to thank Wheelock College—and especially its former presi-dent, Marjorie Bakken—for hosting the conference from which the idea for this book is derived (‘‘The Black Panther Party in Historical Perspective,’’ 11–13 June 2003). That idea—to engender a new historical research agenda on a popular but understudied subject—arose well before the conference, and it was only Bakken’s unwavering commitment to help us bring the Panthers into the academic historical community as a subject worthy of debate that made possible a book that could stand on its own. It is our hope that this volume, and the spirit that animates it, will be merely a beginning for further work on the Panthers. The conference itself would not have been possible without the skilled and steady guidance of our assistant, Natalie Levine. As important, though, the book owes its organizational integrity to the technical expertise of Re-becca Zielinski and Sharon Blumenstock, and its bibliographic integrity to our research librarians Amanda Richmond, Carrie Eastman, and especially Lisa Zeidenberg. It also would never have seen the light of day without the generous support of Wheelock’s current president, Jackie Jenkins-Scott, and its vice president for academic a√airs, Suzanne Pasch, as well as of the Col-lege Research and Development Committee. For ﬁnancial support we also thank Fairﬁeld University. Most of all, we are indebted to the editorial direction and inspiration of Raphael Allen, who saw from the beginning the value and necessity of bring-ing the Panthers into the world of historical scholarship. A rarity in the

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