| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| 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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Presents an overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party, revealing the political dynamics that drove the growth of this revolutionary movement, and its unraveling. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Black Panther Party -- History.
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Black Panther Party. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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Civil rights movements. |
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Race relations. |
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Race relations -- Political aspects. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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History.
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| Added Author |
Martin, Waldo E., 1951- author.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Bloom, Joshua. Black against empire Berkeley : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520293281 (OCoLC)947858586 |
| ISBN |
9780520966451 : $27.95 |
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0520966457 : $27.95 |
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