It sat, forgotten, on my bookshelf for months; when the protests against police brutality began, I remembered that I had this book and figured it might be relevant to these times. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. I found this book incredibly informing because it presents a history of that time from a radical perspective. Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. Black Against Empire $ 28.00. by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. There was something new on every page. Readable and detailed, with a clearly stated view of how and why the Party rose and fell - this is a story all American communists and anarchists should be familiar with. But to inform you dog racists controlling this rotten government and for you to let your pig cops know you ain’t just causing a “long hot summer”, you’re causing a Black Revolution. They started with their self-defense program, which was necessary given police terror in the occupation of Black communities. There were riots in Boston even. They will learn the corre"If one would look closely, and check this three year history, he will find that in damn near every rebellion a racist cop was involved in the starting of that rebellion. The racist military police force occupies our community just like the foreign American troops in Vietnam. The chance to learn more about the Panthers was irresistible, as I found the 50th anniversary exhibit at the Oakland Museum fascinating. But I was shocked. My dad was a Republican Nixon supporter but I also had a lot of leftist, McCarthy supporters as friends (almost all white). 0520271858 Huey Newton and company pointed the finger at police brutality, and pointed guns when necessary.
The book captures how the organization was both riveting and frustrating, and is probably too sympathetic to the revolutionary musings of militant Maoist twenty-somethings, but nevertheless it is a solid history of what, how, and why of the organizations rise and fall between 1968 and 1971.
This book was perfect for that. The writers are academics, but they are decent historians. "Between 1968 and 1970 the Black Panther Party was the vanguard of the revolutionary moment the United States was experiencing. A fascinating history of the Black Panthers and their role in the Black Power Movement. It's chock full of historical information you don't learn in our schools. And even the events I was very familiar with (like the early police patrols in Oakland, or storming the Assembly in Sacramento) the authors put these in a whole new light, placing the events in a broader context and relation to one another in a way that it all makes sense.I took a exceptionally long time to read this because I read it with my partner. Into the BLACK PANTHER PARTY—and then let it spread like wildfire across this country.”“The Panthers saw black communities in the United States as a colony and the police as an occupying army.” It was indeed.
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party is a 2013 book focusing on the history of the Black Panthers. The were active when I was a kid growing up in Boston so I certainly knew of them along with the Students for a Democratic Society.