The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
by Robyn C. Spencer
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In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership, Spencer draws on interviews with rank-and-file members, FBI files, and archival materials to examine the impact the organization's internal politics and COINTELPRO's political repression had on show more its evolution and dissolution. She shows how the Panthers' members interpreted, implemented, and influenced party ideology and programs; initiated dialogues about gender politics; highlighted ambiguities in the Panthers' armed stance; and criticized organizational priorities. Spencer also centers gender politics and the experiences of women and their contributions to the Panthers and the Black Power movement as a whole. Providing a panoramic view of the party's organization over its sixteen-year history, The Revolution Has Come shows how the Black Panthers embodied Black Power through the party's international activism, interracial alliances, commitment to address state violence, and desire to foster self-determination in Oakland's black communities. show lessTags
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Robyn C. Spencer is Associate Professor of History at Lehman College, City University of New York.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 322.4 — Society, government, & culture Political science Relation of the state to organized groups and their members Political action groups
- LCC
- E185.615 .S697 — History of the United States United States
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- English
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