{"product_id":"comrades-9780253219305","title":"Comrades","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the work and actions of seven local initiatives in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. This book reveals these local organizations as committed to programs of community activism that focused on problems of social, political, and economic justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeeking to move beyond the usual media stereotypes, condemnations from the Right, and romanticization on the Left, this book follows the story of local Black Panther Party chapters in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. While the party \"as an organization is often reduced to Oakland, and Oakland is often reduced to Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and perhaps Eldridge Cleaver,\" this book deliberately ignores Oakland (as well as Chicago). It follows Panthers in other communities who resisted police brutality, \"participated in broad coalition politics,\" and \"demanded self-determination for oppressed and improverished residents in urban as well as rural areas.\" Each chapter's authors follow a similar format, first by establishing the history of black activism in the local communities to which they are assigned, and then following the rise and fall of the Panthers in their selected areas. In most cases, the local BPP's legacy was that some members \"continued the socially deviant activities that had caused the group's descent,\" while others \"continued the evolution to respectability that the Party had experienced in the 1970s.\" Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudson L. Jeffries and his contributors have done the Black Panther Party a great service by highlighting perhaps the most important, yet least studied aspect of the organization—its community survival programs. Comrades is a must read for any serious student of the Black Panther Party.\u003c\/p\u003e -- James N. Uptoneditor * Encyclopedia of American Race Riots *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . this is an important contribution to an underdeveloped topic in the scholarship on the party. . . . offers original and important research on the subject, broadening the scope of the field in essential ways, while adding to the scope of postwar ubran history.December 2008\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar * University of Connecticut, Storrs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . move[s] beyond the usual media stereotypes, condemnations from the Right, and romanticization on the Left . . . Recommended. January 2009\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his collection of essays skillfully situates seven rarely examined chapters of the Black Panther Party (BPP) within the larger scope of African American urban migration, civil rights activism, and the Black Freedom Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e * Indiana Magazine of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Painting a More Complete Portrait of the Black Panther Party Judson L. Jeffries and Ryan Nissim-Sabat\u003cbr\u003e1. Revising Panther History in Baltimore Judson L. Jeffries\u003cbr\u003e2. Picking Up Where Robert F. Williams Left Off: The Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party Benjamin R. Friedman\u003cbr\u003e3. Panthers Set Up Shop in Cleveland Ryan Nissim-Sabat\u003cbr\u003e4. Nap Town Awakens to Find a Menacing Panther; OK, Maybe Not So Menacing Judson L. Jeffries and Tiyi M. Morris\u003cbr\u003e5. Picking Up the Hammer: The Milwaukee Branch of the Black Panther Party Andrew Witt\u003cbr\u003e6. \"Brotherly Love Can Kill You\": The Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party Omari L. Dyson, Kevin L. Brooks, and Judson L. Jeffries\u003cbr\u003e7. To Live and Die in L.A. Judson L. Jeffries and Malcolm Foley\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Way of Remembering the Black Panther Party in the Post–Black Power Era: Resentment, Disaster, and Disillusionment Floyd W. Hayes III\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151085531479,"sku":"9780253219305","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253219305.jpg?v=1762960076","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/comrades-9780253219305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}