{"product_id":"liberated-territory-untold-local-perspectives-on-the-black-panther-party-paperback","title":"Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYohuru Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJama Lazerow\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith their collection \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Black Panther Party\u003c\/i\u003e, Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow provided a broad analysis of the Black Panther Party and its legacy. In \u003ci\u003eLiberated Territory\u003c\/i\u003e, they turn their attention to local manifestations of the organization, far away from the party's Oakland headquarters. This collection's contributors, all historians, examine how specific party chapters and offshoots emerged, developed, and waned, as well as how the local branches related to their communities and to the national party. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe histories and character of the party branches vary as widely as their locations. The Cape Verdeans of New Bedford, Massachusetts, were initially viewed as a particular challenge for the local Panthers but later became the mainstay of the Boston-area party. In the early 1970s, the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, chapter excelled at implementing the national Black Panther Party's strategic shift from revolutionary confrontation to mainstream electoral politics. In Detroit, the Panthers were defined by a complex relationship between their above-ground activities and an underground wing dedicated to armed struggle. While the Milwaukee chapter was born out of a rising tide of black militancy, it ultimately proved more committed to promoting literacy and health care and redressing hunger than to violence. The Alabama Black Liberation Front did not have the official imprimatur of the national party, but it drew heavily on the Panthers' ideas and organizing strategies, and its activism demonstrates the broad resonance of many of the concerns articulated by the national party: the need for jobs, for decent food and housing, for black self-determination, and for sustained opposition to police brutality against black people. \u003ci\u003eLiberated Territory\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the Black Panther Party's ideologies, goals, and strategies were taken up and adapted throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e: Devin Fergus, Jama Lazerow, Ahmad A. Rahman, Robert W. Widell Jr., Yohuru Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberated Territory\" helps to decenter the Oakland top-down approach to studying the Black Panther Party by critically engaging with the stories of rank and file party members in locations far beyond Oakland. Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow have produced a collection that will quickly become a model for others to emulate.\"--Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, author of \"America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Politics\/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven\u003c\/i\u003e. Jama Lazerow is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and the Working Class in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e. They are co-editors of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJama Lazerow is Professor of History at Wheelock College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and the Working Class in Antebellum America\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450119274674,"sku":"9780822343264","price":46.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fb70d0d50f471db9b769841d3cdbee9d.webp?v=1778780785","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/liberated-territory-untold-local-perspectives-on-the-black-panther-party-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}