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Book SynopsisOut of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing. ? Diplomatic History
In Out of Oakland, Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members, including Assata Shakur, in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the party''s heyday. Founded in Oakland, California, in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the BPP began with no more than a dozen members. Focused on local issues, most notably police brutality, the Panthers patrolled their West Oakland neighborhood armed with shotguns and law books. Within a few years, the BPP had expanded its operations into a global confrontation with what Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver dubbed the international pig power structure.
Malloy traces the shifting intersections between the black fre
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Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing.
* Diplomatic History *
Malloy's focus on the international dimension of the Black Panther Party is a welcomed contribution to this area of study.... Malloy also sheds considerable light on the range of differences in ideological perspective and on-the-ground tactics between Eldridge Cleaver and BPP cofounder Huey P. Newton.... Out of Oakland will be especially useful to classes and graduate seminars centered on Cold War internationalisms, black internationalism, and histories of African American and Afro-diasporic political organizing in the post–civil rights era.... [It] demonstrates that far from being uninformed counterculture renegades, the BPP and its army of revolutionary-minded members, theorists, and comrades were a central component of a political upsurge bent on dismantling U.S. imperial democracy.
-- Christopher M. Tinson * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Theory with No Practice Ain't Shit"1. "Every Brother on a Rooftop Can Quote Fanon": Black Internationalism, 1955–19662. "Army 45 Will Stop All Jive": Origins and Early Operations of the BPP, 1966–19673. "We’re Relating Right Now to the Third World": Creating an Anticolonial Vernacular, 1967–19684. "I Prefer Panthers to Pigs": Transnational and International Connections, 1968–19695. "Juche, Baby, All the Way": Cuba, Algeria, and the Asian Strategy, 1969–19706. "Gangster Cigarettes" and "Revolutionary Intercommunalism": Diverging Directions in Oakland and Algiers, 1970–19717. "Cosmopolitan Guerrillas": The International Section and the RPCN, 1971–19738. The Panthers in Winter, 1971–1981Epilogue: "Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us": From Oakland to Ferguson
