The Black Panthers - Photographs by Stephen Shames
by Charles E. Jones
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Author: Charles E. JonesPhotographer: Stephen Shames
Foreword: Bobby Seale
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-15
ISBN: 1597110248
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Aperture
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Book Review: On the prowl
Summary: 4 Stars
I did not live during their heyday, but this book provides an interesting overview of the organization. Their goals jarred American society--then in the Cold War--because it required the concession that a democracy was not treating everybody fairly.
Furthermore successfully winning the war for civil rights was not as simple as African Americans and other historically marginalized communities intergrating into the status quo.
A whole new society had to be built following a LARGE overhaul of the status quo.
A strength of the Black Panther Party was that it encouraged these disadvantaged communities to step up to the plate--and assume responsibilitity for taking care of themselves.
Raising the ire of then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, several of the ten point directives ironically would today be more likely to place the Black Panther Party as proponents of welfare reform--if not dismantlement. They believed in giving people a hand up as opposed to a hand out.
But then Chairman Huey P. Newton attempted to build alliances with 'the women and the gays'. Encouraging Party members to recognize how their own stereotypes undercut a successful creation of the revolutionary society, this directive sharply contrasted with most mainstream 'ultra macho' representations of the Party.
Newton's plan remains all the more radical today when some people attempt to sell out these communities.
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