Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (The George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
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Author: Bloom, Joshua
Brand: University of California Press
Edition: First Edition, With a New Preface
Features:
- University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 568
Release Date: 25-10-2016
Details: Product Description Notice: The California Department of Corrections has designated this book dangerous contraband. All CA prisoners are prohibited from purchasing or reading this book. Winner of the American Book Award 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 the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world. Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power. Review "An account that should be called, above everything else,'definitive.' . . . The book's honest attempt to understand the intricacies of the movement is underscored by its commitment to nonpartisanship: While Bloom and Martin take great care not to vilify the Panthers as armed thugs, neither do they romanticize them simply as a misunderstood civil rights group. The result is a downright scientific analysis of a subject that leaves most readers understandably unable to stay neutral." --Bookforum "Vivid renderings of scene ... make comprehensible both the movement and the times." --Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "A comprehensive history." --New Yorker "Unique...in the scope and depth of its scholarship." --Los Angeles Times Book Review " Black against Empire is a masterful work...Easily the most impressive, sweeping, and substantive scholarly history of the Black Panther Party." --Journal of American History "The book will become a classic." --American Historical Review "Nothing short of impressive." -- Social Forces "The first comprehensive history of the party." --London Review of Books "An account that should be called, above everything else,'definitive.' . . . The book's honest attempt to understand the intricacies of the movement is underscored by its commitment to nonpartisanship: While Bloom and Martin take great care not to vilify the Panthers as armed thugs, neither do they romanticize them simply as a misunderstood civil rights group. The result is a downright scientific analysis of a subject that leaves most readers understandably unable to stay neutral." --Bookforum "Immediately assumes a central and critical spot within the Panther canon. More than a decade in the making, this is no romantic valentine to a bygone day... it takes the Black Panther Party seriously as a political entity taking dead aim on American laws and values. . . . What Bloom and Mart
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.0 x 1.4 inches
Languages: English