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This book offers a look inside the rise and fall of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party in Oakland from the 60's to the 80's. Nelson has spoken to many of the participants and assembled what appears to be a well-balanced overview of the promise and problems of the Party. His essential argument is that the Party began as a criminal enterprise with revolutionary trappings and was eventually consumed by it's own criminality. The book was apparently somewhat controversial because this, of course, contradicts the standard view that the Panthers began as a worthy endeavor but was tragically destroyed by increasing criminal activity and mismanagement and illegal government meddling. Despite some awkward prose, this is an excellent look at the turn from non-violence to violence in the Black Community in the mid-60's. (Reviewed:) Grade: (B) Tweet Websites:-BOOKNOTES : Author: Hugh Pearson Title: The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Air date: August 21, 1994 (C-SPAN) -EXCERPT : Chapter 6 of Under the Knife : How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South By Hugh Pearson -ESSAY : Rap Brown: Innocent, or a great actor? (HUGH PEARSON, The Washington Post) -ESSAY : Not Just the Color of Our Skin : It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer (Hugh Pearson, Salon) -ESSAY : My Love/Hate Relationship With America's Jews (Hugh Pearson , Culture Front) -ESSAY : The best way to say, 'Never again!' (HUGH PEARSON , Newsday -INTERVIEW : Law Matters : Randall Kennedy reminds us that criminal justice isn't always black-and-white (Interview by Hugh Pearson, Mother Jones) -DISCUSSION : Battle of the Burnouts : David Horowitz Dukes It Out With His Old Sixties Comrades on the Sixties-L Usenet Discussion Group (Front Page) -ESSAY : Panthers -REVIEW : of The Shadow of the Panther Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America By Hugh Pearson (CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, NY Times) -REVIEW : of THE SHADOW OF THE PANTHER Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. By Hugh Pearson (Bob Blauner, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife How a Wealthy Negro Surgeon Wielded Power in the Jim Crow South. By Hugh Pearson (Jason Berry, NY Times Book Reviews) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife (Abraham Verghese, Chicago Tribune) -REVIEW : of Under the Knife (Dennis A. Williams, Emerge) BLACK PANTHERS :
If you liked Shadow of the Panther, try : Branch, Taylor
Cleaver, Eldridge
Goodman, James
Haygood, Wil
Jackson, George
X, Malcolm & Alex Haley
Washington, Booker T.
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