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Framing the Black Panthers

Framing the Black Panthers

Name: Framing the Black Panthers
Author: Jane Rhodes
ISBN: 9780252082641

The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon

by Jane Rhodes

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

456 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 28.00 mm, 28 black & white photographs

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9780252082641
Published: January 2017

£16.99

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Published: January 2017

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A potent symbol of black power and radical inspiration, the Black Panthers still evoke strong emotions. This edition of Jane Rhodes's acclaimed study examines the extraordinary staying power of the Black Panthers in the American imagination. Probing the group's longtime relationship to the media, Rhodes traces how the Panthers articulated their message through symbols and tactics the mass media could not resist. By exploiting press coverage through everything from posters to public appearances to photo ops, the Panthers created a linguistic and symbolic universe as salient today as during the group's heyday. They also pioneered a sophisticated version of mass media activism that powers contemporary African American protest. Featuring a timely new preface by the author, Framing the Black Panthers is a breakthrough reconsideration of a fascinating phenomenon.

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Preface to the New Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Forty Years in Hindsight: The Black Panthers in Popular Memory

2. Black America in the Public Sphere

3. Becoming Media Subjects

4. Revolutionary Culture and the Politics of Self-Representation

5. Free Huey: 1968

6. A Trial of the Black Liberation Movement

photo section

7. From Campus Celebrity to Radical Chic

8. Servants of the People: The Black Panthers as National and Global Icons

9. The Rise and Fall od a Media Frenzy: The 1970s

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Jane Rhodes is professor and department head of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century.

"By tracing the history of the Black Panther Party through the evolution of its popular imagery, Jane Rhodes has made a major contribution to scholarship. Her treatment of this controversial organization is well-researched, admirably balanced, singularly insightful, and a pleasure to read."--Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute

"No scholar has better documented and explained the Black Panther Party 's continuing hold on the popular imagination than Jane Rhodes. In a moment when black men and women dying at the hands of police is once again in the public eye, and insurgent political confrontation takes form through mediated images and pithy slogans, the republication of Framing the Black Panthers is both timely and relevant."--Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

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