Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party / Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

By:

Bloom, Joshua [author.]

Contributor(s):

Martin, Waldo E, 1951- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oakland : University of California Press : University of California Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520966451
0520966457

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black against Empire : The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party.DDC classification:

322.4/20973 23

LOC classification:

E185.615

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Contents:

Introduction -- Part 1. Organizing rage. Huey and Bobby ; Policing the police -- Part 2. Baptism in blood. The correct handling of a revolution ; Free Huey! ; Martyrs ; National uprising -- Part 3. Resilience. Breakfast ; Law and order ; 41st and Central ; Hampton and Clark ; Bobby and Ericka -- Part 4. Revolution has come! Black studies and Third World liberation ; Vanguard of the New Left ; International alliance -- Part 5. Concessions and unraveling. Rupture ; The limits of heroism.

Summary: This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within.

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"With a new preface."

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within.

In English.

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