Revolution in Our Lifetime: A Short History of the Black Panther Party
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01AEPRPLW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 285 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her research and analysis is featured in the award-winning documentary on the Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution.. About the AuthorDonna Murch is an Associate Professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, which won the Phillis Wheatley Prize
Revolution in Our Lifetime restores the anti-capitalism and internationalist perspective—the revolutionary imagination and far-reaching politics—of the Panthers to our understanding of this crucial and fascinating movement.Written as a succinct and accessible essay, this new history provides the sharpest picture of the Panthers while reflecting on their legacy and relevance today, in a renewed era of Black and youth protest.From the Trade Paperback edition.. A new history of the Black Panther Party, for the 50th anniversary of its foundingThe Black Panther Party and the movement that spawned it is one of the most storied episodes in the history of the Black freedom struggle in America, and in the history of the American Left. And yet, argues the brilliant historian Donna Murch, the Panthers’ radical moment and meaning have become obscured—first, by government repression, and then by the narrowing of demands and alternative politics in the fifty years since the founding of the party in Oakland in October 1966
Donna Murch is an Associate Professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her research and analysis is featured in the award-winning documentary on the Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution.. She is the author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Bla