Abstract
A comprehensive review of all published scholarship on the Black Panther Party (BPP) leads to the inescapable conclusion that the huge recent upsurge in historical writing about the Panthers begins from a surprisingly weak and modest foundation. More than a decade ago, two major BPP autobiographies, Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power (1992) and David Hilliard's This Side of Glory (1993), along with Hugh Pearson's widely reviewed book on the late BPP co-founder Huey P. Newton, The Shadow of the Panther (1994), represented a first-generation revisiting of the Oakland-based group that sprang to life in 1966 but sputtered out of existence in 1982. Yet aside from thoughtful and
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