Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and their Legacy

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Routledge, Apr 8, 2014 - Political Science - 336 pages
This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most significant revolutionary organization in the later 20th century.
 

Contents

Understanding the Fight for Freedom
69
Envisioning the Imagination of the Movement
139
Continuing the Resistance
195
Notes
237
Appendices
285
About the Authors
301
Index
305
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Kathleen Cleaver, currently Professor of Public Policy at Emory University, worked full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and afterwards became the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party. Returning to the United States after sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she subsequently earned both a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. George Katsiaficas is a long-time activist as well as Editor of the journal New Political Science and author of The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. His book, The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, won the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. He teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

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