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In Search of the Black Panther Party
New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement
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2006
About this book
Interdisciplinary essays reevaluate the Black Panthers and their legacy in relation to revolutionary violence, radical ideology, urban politics, popular culture, and the media.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“Collectively, the essays raise important questions about the Panthers that demonstrate the organization’s complexity, and should stimulate an energetic scholarly discussion and reevaluation of the Panthers’ historical significance. . . . Highly Recommended.” - M. Cachun, Choice
“These diverse and insightful essays, drawn from many untapped sources, collectively highlight the importance of local studies in complicating historians’ understandings of the BPP, which, as the authors point out, must be a key element in creating a historically rich narrative about this era.” - Beth Slutsky, Journal of American Ethnic History
“Recent scholarship is well represented, resulting in a collection of essays that treat their subject in a scholarly, yet sensitive manner. . . . Lazerow, Williams, and the contributing authors are to be commended for producing a collection of essays that compels scholars to reexamine the Black Panthers and their true impact on U. S. and African American history.” - Oscar Williams, Journal of African American History
"Taken as a whole, the essays offer a critical evaluation of the BPP and do not hesitate to challenge the shibboleths and assumptions that heretofore have dominated scholarship on the Panthers. . . . [A]n important contribution. . . ." - Gregg L. Michel, Journal of American History
"In Search of the Black Panther Party makes a valuable contribution to the field of Panther historiography." - Paul Alkebulan, The Historian
“[In Search of the Black Panther Party] avoids a weakness common to collected conference papers, as each of the chapters refers to the other essays and flows clearly into the next piece. Although the general outline of the birth, rise, and collapse of the Panthers is common knowledge, this volume shows the complexity and debatable heritage of the group.” - Thomas J. Noer, Histoire sociale/Social History
“Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams have assembled a superb, timely, and significant anthology that historicizes one of the most controversial groups of the 1960s. Wide-ranging in scope, provocative, and deeply insightful, In Search of the Black Panther Party is a major contribution to the burgeoning literature on the Black Panthers and the wider Black Power era.”—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
“Researchers have uncovered more useful information on the Panthers in the past ten years than in the preceding thirty. This wide-ranging collection contains some of the finest examples of today’s exciting new scholarship. It tops the list of required reading for those seeking to make up for lost time.”—William L. Van Deburg, author of New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965–1975
“[In Search of the Black Panther Party] avoids a weakness common to collected conference papers, as each of the chapters refers to the other essays and flows clearly into the next piece. Although the general outline of the birth, rise, and collapse of the Panthers is common knowledge, this volume shows the complexity and debatable heritage of the group.”
-- Thomas J. Noer Social History
“Collectively, the essays raise important questions about the Panthers that demonstrate the organization’s complexity, and should stimulate an energetic scholarly discussion and reevaluation of the Panthers’ historical significance. . . . Highly Recommended.”
-- M. Cachun Choice
“Recent scholarship is well represented, resulting in a collection of essays that treat their subject in a scholarly, yet sensitive manner. . . . Lazerow, Williams, and the contributing authors are to be commended for producing a collection of essays that compels scholars to reexamine the Black Panthers and their true impact on U. S. and African American history.”
-- Oscar Williams Journal of African American History
“These diverse and insightful essays, drawn from many untapped sources, collectively highlight the importance of local studies in complicating historians’ understandings of the BPP, which, as the authors point out, must be a key element in creating a historically rich narrative about this era.”
-- Beth Slutsky Journal of American Ethnic History
"In Search of the Black Panther Party makes a valuable contribution to the field of Panther historiography."
-- Paul Alkebulan The Historian
"Taken as a whole, the essays offer a critical evaluation of the BPP and do not hesitate to challenge the shibboleths and assumptions that heretofore have dominated scholarship on the Panthers. . . . [A]n important contribution. . . ."
-- Gregg L. Michel Journal of American History
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Editors’ Note
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Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now?
1 - PART ONE. The Panthers through the Historian’s Lens
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The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era
15 - PART TWO. The Panthers as American Revolutionaries
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Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence
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In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and Discourses of Self-Defense
67 - PART THREE. From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the Black Panthers
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Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History
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‘‘A Rebel All His Life’’: The Unexpected Story of Frank ‘‘Parky’’ Grace
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WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special Case Agent William A. Cohendet
158 - PART FOUR. Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a ‘‘Revolutionary Vanguard’’
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Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My!
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Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party
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Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School the Panthers on Black Revolution
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Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967–1973
252 - PART FIVE. Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American Imagination
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Introductory Comment: ‘‘Culture Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation’’: The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization
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The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a Revolutionary Life
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Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party
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Contributors
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Index
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