Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Editors’ Note xi
5. Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now? 1
6. PART ONE. The Panthers through the Historian’s Lens
7. The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era 15
8. PART TWO. The Panthers as American Revolutionaries
9. Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence 59
10. In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and Discourses of Self-Defense 67
11. PART THREE. From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the Black Panthers
12. Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History 97
13. ‘‘A Rebel All His Life’’: The Unexpected Story of Frank ‘‘Parky’’ Grace 104
14. WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special Case Agent William A. Cohendet 158
15. PART FOUR. Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a ‘‘Revolutionary Vanguard’’
16. Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My! 183
17. Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party 191
18. Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School the Panthers on Black Revolution 223
19. Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967–1973 252
20. PART FIVE. Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American Imagination
21. Introductory Comment: ‘‘Culture Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation’’: The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization 289
22. The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a Revolutionary Life 306
23. Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party 324
24. Contributors 375
25. Index 377