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

This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most significant revolutionary organization in the later 20th century.

Author: Kathleen Cleaver, George Katsiaficas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/20/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.06w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780415927840

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2000 pg. 103

About the Author

Kathleen Cleaver, currently Professor of Public Policy at Emory University, worked full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and afterwards became the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party. Returning to the United States after sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she subsequently earned both a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. George Katsiaficas is a long-time activist as well as Editor of the journal New Political Science and author of The Imagination of the New Left: A GlobalAnalysis of 1968. His book, The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and theDecolonization of Everyday Life, won the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. He teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.