Product Description: Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be "America's whitest major city." In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the city's Albina District to rally their community and be heard by city leaders...read more

Product Description: The Black Panther Party suffers from a distorted image largely framed by television and print media, including the Panthers' own newspaper. These sources frequently reduced the entire organization to the Bay Area where the Panthers were founded, emphasizing the Panthers' militant rhetoric and actions rather than their community survival programs...read more

Product Description: The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. It was perhaps the most visible of the Black Power groups in the late 60s and early 70s, not least because of its confrontational politics, its rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr...read more

Product Description: Despite the growing scholarly interest in the Civil Rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast fills this gap by providing the first in-depth look at the Black Power movement from the 1963 founding of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) to the Black Power Movement's demise in the mid 1970s...read more

A new consideration of the Black Panther's leadership, political thought, and intellectual development

Product Description: Harlan Hahn and Judson L Jeffries present a broad and comparative overview of urban policing in the United States. Synthesising their own research with information from an eclectic array of sources -- seminal social science studies of urban police departments, government documents, reports from organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, and think tank monographs -- they present a nationally oriented and historically informed understanding of the diverse and often conflicting roles police officers play on city streets...read more

Focusing on black electoral political leadership and the political dynamics of anti-black racism, examines the 1989 election of Wilder as the first African American to be a state governor in the history of the United States. (view table of contents)