In Search of the Black Panther Party

Abstract

Acknowledgments ix Editors' Note xi Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now? / Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams 1 Part I. The Panthers through the Historian's Lens The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era / Robert O. Self 15 Part II. The Panthers as American Revolutionaries Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence / Rod Bush 59 In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and Discourses of Self-Defense / Bridgette Baldwin 67 Part III. From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the Black Panthers Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History / James T. Campbell 97 A Rebel All His Life: The Unexpected Story of Frank Parky Grace / Jama Lazerow 104 WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special Case Agent Williams A. Cohendet / Roz Payne 158 Part IV. Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a Vanguard Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My! / Yohuru Williams 183 Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers and the Peace and Freedom Party / Joel Wilson 191 Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School and Panthers on Black Revolution / David Barber 223 Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967-1973 / Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar 252 Part V. Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American Imagination Introductory Comment: Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation: The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization / Davarian L. Baldwin 289 The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution: The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a Revolutionary Life / Tim Lake 306 Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party / Edward P. Morgan 324 Contributors 375 Index 377