Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

by Waldo E. Martin Jr. and Joshua Bloom

Book Overview

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293282
• ISBN13: 9780520293281
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Where is the “cover”?

I just received my book, and though I knew the book was going a used book, when went to purchase the book, there were no notes saying that the “book cover” was missing(???). Glad to have the book, but now I must purchase another one just to obtain the “cover” for the book.