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Out of Oakland

Sean L. Malloy

2017,2018

Overview

InOut 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.\" p>Malloy traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War. By the early 1970s, the Panthers had chapters across the United States as well as an international section headquartered in Algeria and support groups and emulators as far afield as England, India, New Zealand, Israel, and Sweden. The international section served as an official embassy for the BPP and a beacon for American revolutionaries abroad, attracting figures ranging from Black Power skyjackers to fugitive LSD guru Timothy Leary. Engaging directly with the expanding Cold War, BPP representatives cultivated alliances with the governments of Cuba, North Korea, China, North Vietnam, and the People's Republic of the Congo as well as European and Japanese militant groups and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In an epilogue, Malloy directly links the legacy of the BPP to contemporary questions raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Subject: 20th century / AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES / Afro-diasporic political organizing / Anti-imperialist movements / black history / black internationalism / black lives matter movement / Black Panther Party / Black Panther Party activism / Black Panther Party aid / Black Panther Party algeria / Black Panther Party black live matter / Black Panther Party china / Black Panther Party civil rights / Black Panther Party congo / Black Panther Party cuba / Black Panther Party england / Black Panther Party freedom struggles / Black Panther Party global / Black Panther Party helping others / Black Panther Party history / Black Panther Party ideology / Black Panther Party india / Black Panther Party international / Black Panther Party internationalism / Black Panther Party isreal / Black Panther Party modern / Black Panther Party movement / Black Panther Party new zealand / Black Panther Party north korea / Black Panther Party north vietnam / Black Panther Party now / Black Panther Party PLO / Black Panther Party politics / Black Panther Party revolutionaries / black panther party social justice / Black Panther Party sweeden / Black power / black power movement / blm activism / civil rights history / Cold War / Cold War - Political aspects / Cold War internationalisms / counterculture renegades / critical race / dismantling U.S. imperial democracy / foreign policy of the Black Panther Party / global black studies / HISTORY / HISTORY / World / Internationalism / internationalism of the Black Panther Party / local issues blm / police brutality / political activism / political activism antiracist / political activism blm / Political aspects / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General / Race and Ethnic Studies / Race relations / racial politics / social justice history / social justice warrior / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / Sociology / U.S. HISTORY / United States / VIETNAM
• ISBN: 9781501712708, 1501712705, 9781501702396, 1501702394, 9781501713422, 1501713426