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Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Black Panthers and Their Legacy

Edited by Kathleen Cleaver, Edited by George Katsiaficas

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While the story of history may be most often defined through its winners, long forgotten, defeated movements and their ideals sometimes reemerge with renewed popularity, offering perhaps a better glimpse into society's future. This is the argument put forward by this collection of reflections from scholars and activists that reconsider the historical impact of the Black Panther Party (BPP)- often called the most significant revolutionary organization in the US in the later part of 20th-century. Compared with more entrenched organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) or the NAACP, the 14-year existence of the Black Panther Party seems brief indeed. Yet the BBP gave organizational expression to a tendency in the revolutionary movement that long predated it - the idea that the entire system is corrupt and needs to be reconstructed. Dozens of groups dedicated to revolutionary change appeared in the US in the 1960s, but only the BPP was able to develop a mass following and appeal to a broad constituency. These articles offer a recounting of the Party's tumultuous history and its reverberations through modern politics, including Chicano movements, international labor mov

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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

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