Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Hardcover) by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin

from LitwinLit

Setting a new benchmark for Black Power/Radical Movement scholarship, this is THE book for anyone hoping to learn more about the Black Panther Party's history, construction, and political impact. It is written with a relatively fair tone that lacks the standard pro-establishment/pro-police bias t...

from twp77

"Black Against Empire" is an incredibly well researched and detailed history of the the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Power movement in the US.As the author's note, much of what has been written on black nationalism and liberation covers the struggle in the South, s...

from le.vert.galant

The history of the rise and, more briefly, fall of the Black Panther Party. The book's thesis is that the party's method of armed self-defense and radical language placed it at the center of the Black Power movement, which the authors claim is largely independent of the civil rights movement. I h...

from LitwinLit

Setting a new benchmark for Black Power/Radical Movement scholarship, this is THE book for anyone hoping to learn more about the Black Panther Party's history, construction, and political impact. It is written with a relatively fair tone that lacks the standard pro-establishment/pro-police bias t...

from twp77

"Black Against Empire" is an incredibly well researched and detailed history of the the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Power movement in the US.As the author's note, much of what has been written on black nationalism and liberation covers the struggle in the South, s...