| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 195 pages) |
| Contents |
Out of the Ashes of Despair Rises a Militant Phoenix: The Birth of the Black Panther Party -- Distortions, Misrepresentations, and Outright Lies: Setting the Record Straight -- Newton's View of People and the State -- Critiquing Newton's Critique of Pan-Africanism -- The Party Line: The Ideological Development of the Black Panther Party -- What Did He Do to Be So Black and Blue?: Blacks and the American Political, Economic, and Social Order -- The "Bad Nigger" Personified -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party -- Postscript: Literary Criticisms of Newton's Work |
| Summary |
"Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Power Movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp at Newton's drug use and at the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message. In Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, Judson L. Jeffries considers the entire arc of Newton's political role and influence on civil rights history and African American thought. Jeffries argues that, contrary to popular belief, Newton was one of the most important political thinkers in the struggle for civil rights"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-191) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Newton, Huey P.
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Newton, Huey P. -- Political and social views
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Newton, Huey P. fast |
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Black Panther Party -- Biography
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Black Panther Party fast |
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African American radicals -- Biography
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Black power -- United States.
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African American radicals
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African Americans -- Politics and government
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Black power
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Political and social views
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United States
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781417509669 |
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141750966X |
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9781604730333 |
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1604730331 |
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