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Black Panther Party Bibliography THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS Abu-Jamal, Mumia. We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2004. Andrews, Lori B. Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Anthony, Earl. Picking up the Gun; a Report on the Black Panthers. New York: Pyramid Books, 1971. ---. Spitting in the Wind: The True Story Behind the Violent Legacy of the Black Panther Party. Santa Monica, Calif.: Roundtable Pub., 1990. Arend, Orissa. Showdown in Desire: People, Panthers, Piety, and Police: The Story of the Black Panthers in New Orleans, 1970. New Orleans, La.: O. Arend, 2003. Arlen, Michael J. An American Verdict. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973. Austin, Curtis J. Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. Balagoon, Kuwasi. Look for Me in the Whirlwind; the Collective Autobiography of the New York 21. New York: Random House, 1971. Baruch, Ruth-Marion and Pirkle Jones. The Vanguard; a Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Baruch, Ruth-Marion, Pirkle Jones, and Kathleen Cleaver. Black Panthers, 1968. Los Angeles, Calif.: Greybull Press, 2002. Bass, Paul and Douglas W. Rae. Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Bin Wahad, Dhoruba, et al. Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries. New York: Semiotext(e), 1993. Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. Chevigny, Paul. Cops and Rebels: A Study of Provocation. New York,: Pantheon Books, 1972. Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression : The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Corrected ed. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1990. Cleaver, Eldridge. Post-Prison Writings and Speeches. New York,: Vintage Books, 1969. ---. Soul on Ice. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Cleaver, Kathleen, and George N. Katsiaficas. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy. New York: Routledge, 2001. Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and the Police, Roy Wilkins, and Ramsey Clark. Search and Destroy; a Report. New York: Metropolitan Applied Research Center, 1973. Erikson, Erik H., and Huey P. Newton. In Search of Common Ground; Conversations with Erik H. Erikson and Huey P. Newton. New York: Norton, 1973. Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn, and Michèle Foster. Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives. New York: Routledge, 1996. Foner, Philip Sheldon. The Black Panthers Speak. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. Forbes, Flores A. Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party. New York: Atria Books, 2006. Freed, Donald. Agony in New Haven; the Trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins, and the Black Panther Party. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. Genet, Jean. Prisoner of Love. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1992. Genet, Jean, Allen Ginsberg, and Bobby Seale. May Day Speech. San Francisco: City Lights, 1970. Heath, G. Louis, and Black Panther Party. Off the Pigs! : The History and Literature of the Black Panther Party. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Hersey, John. Letter to the Alumni. New York: Knopf, 1970. Hill, Norman. The Black Panther Menace: America’s Neo-Nazis. New York: Popular Library, 1971. Hilliard, David, and Lewis Cole. This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2001. Hilliard, David, Keith Zimmerman, and Kent Zimmerman. Huey: Spirit of the Panther. New York, N.Y.: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006. Hopkins, Evans D. Life after Life: A Story of Rage and Redemption. New York: Free Press, 2005. Jeffries, J. L. Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Jeffries, J. L. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2006. Jones, Charles E. The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered). Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998. Keating, Edward M. Free Huey! Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971. Larner, John W., and Scholarly Resources inc. Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1986. Lazerow, Jama, and Yohuru R. Williams. In Search of the Black Panther Party : New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Major, Reginald. A Panther Is a Black Cat. New York: W. Morrow, 1971. Marine, Gene. The Black Panthers. New York: New American Library, 1969. Moore, Gilbert. A Special Rage. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Newton, Huey P. To Die for the People. New York: Vintage Books, 1972. ---. Revolutionary Suicide. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Newton, Huey P., David Hilliard, and Donald Weise. The Huey P. Newton Reader. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002. Newton, Huey P., et al. The Black Panther Leaders Speak: Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and Company Speak out through the Black Panther Party's Official Newspaper. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Newton, Michael. Bitter Grain: Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party. Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1991. Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Olsen, Jack. Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Pearson, Hugh. The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1994. Schanche, Don A. The Panther Paradox: A Liberal’s Dilemma. New York: D. McKay Co., 1970. Seale, Bobby. A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale. New York: Times Books, 1977. ---. Seize the Time : The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. Baltimore, Md.: Black Classic Press, 1991. Shakur, Assata. Assata, an Autobiography. Westport, CT: L. Hill, 1987. Sheehy, Gail. Panthermania; the Clash of Black against Black in One American City. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Smith, Jennifer B. An International History of the Black Panther Party. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland, 1999. Stone, Willie, and Chuck Moore. I Was a Black Panther. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Theoharis, Jeanne, and Komozi Woodard. Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America. New York: New York University Press, 2005. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security. The Black Panther Party, Its Origin and Development as Reflected in Its Official Weekly Newspaper, the Black Panther, Black Community News Service; Staff Study, Ninety-First Congress, Second Session. Washington,: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970. ---. Gun-Barrel Politics: The Black Panther Party, 1966-1971. Report, Ninety-Second Congress, First Session. Washington,: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI File on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina. 2 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1986. Williams, Yohuru, et al. Black Politics/Whitepower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven. St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, 2000. Witt, Andrew. The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977. New York: Routledge, 2007. Wood, John A. The Panthers and the Militias : Brothers under the Skin? Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002. ARTICLES “Black Scholar Interviews Kathleen Cleaver.” Black Scholar 3.4 (1971): 54-59. “The Black Panthers.” Journal of Palestine Studies 1.4 (1972): 146-47. “Erratum: Poetry of the Black Panther Party: Metaphors of Militancy.” Journal of Black Studies 29.3 (1999): 464. “Former Black Panthers Who Have Turned to Higher Education.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 21 (1998): 62-63. “Police and Panthers.” Black Politician 1.3 (1970): 17-19. Abron, Jonina M. “The Legacy of the Black Panther Party.” Black Scholar 17.6 (1986): 33-37. Anderson, Jervis. “Panthers: Black Men in Extremis.” Dissent 17.2 (1970): 120-23. Blake, J. Herman. “Is the Black Panther Party Suicidal?” Politics and Society 2.3 (1972): 287-92. Blumenthal, Sid. “COINTELPRO: How the FBI Tried to Destroy the Black Panthers.” Canadian Dimension 10.6 (1975): 32-44. Bringhurst, Newell G. “Eldridge Cleaver’s Passage through Mormonism.” Journal of Mormon History 28.1 (2002): 80-110. Brooks, Peter. “Panthers at Yale.” Partisan Review 37.3 (1970): 420-39. Bullins, Ed. “The Black Revolutionary Commercial.” The Drama Review 13.4 (1969): 144-45. Burroughs, Todd Steven. “Black Panthers Gather for 35th Anniversary.” New Crisis 109.4. Calloway, Carolyn R. “Group Cohesiveness in the Black Panther Party.” Journal of Black Studies 8.1 (1977): 55-74. Cleaver, Kathleen Neal. “Women, Power, and Revolution.” New Political Science 21.2 (1999): 231-36. Clemons, Michael L., and Charles E. Jones. “Global Solidarity: The Black Panther Party in the International Arena.” New Political Science 21.2 (1999): 177-203. Courtright, John A. “Rhetoric of the Gun: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Modifications of the Black Panther Party.” Journal of Black Studies 4.3 (1974): 249-67. Dahlerus, Claudia, and Christian A. Davenport. “Tracking Down the Empirical Legacy of the Black Panther Party (or Notes on the Perils of Pursuing the Panthers).” New Political Science 21.2 (1999): 261-78. Doss, Erika. “‘Revolutionary Art Is a Tool for Liberation’: Emory Douglas and Protest Aesthetics at the Black Panther.” New Political Science 21.2 (1999): 245. ---. “Imaging the Panthers: Representing Black Power and Masculinity, 1960s-1990s.” Prospects 23 (1998): 483-516. Early, Gerald. “Afrocentrism: From Sensationalism to Measured Deliberation.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 5 (1994): 86-88. Feavor, George. “The Panther’s Road to Suicide.
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