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Huey P. Newton - The Radical Theorist (Paperback)
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Huey P. Newton - The Radical Theorist (Paperback)
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Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and
the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives
harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in
a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black
revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message. In Huey P. Newton:
The Radical Theorist, Judson L. Jeffries considers the entire arc
of Newton's political role and influence on civil rights history
and African American thought. Jeffries argues that, contrary to
popular belief, Newton was one of the most important political
thinkers in the struggle for civil rights. Huey P. Newton's
political career spanned two decades. Like many freedom fighters,
he was a complex figure. His international reputation was forged as
much from his passionate defense of black liberation as from his
highly publicized confrontations with police. His courage to
address police brutality won him admirers in ghettos, on college
campuses, and in select Hollywood circles. Newton gave Black Power
a compelling urgency and played a pivotal role in the politics of
black America during the 1960s and 1970s. Few would deny that
Newton's life (1942-1989) was strewn with incidences of violence
and that his police record was long. But Newton's struggles with
police took place in a rich and troubled context that included
urban unrest, police brutality, government repression, and an
intense debate over civil rights tactics. Stripped of history and
interpretation, the violence of Newton's life brought emphatic
indictments of him. Newton's death attracted widespread media
attention. However, pundits offered little on Newton as freedom
fighter or as theoretician and activist. Huey P. Newton: The
Radical Theorist dispels myths about Newton's life, but the book is
primarily an in-depth examination of Newton's ideas. By exploring
this charismatic leader, Jeffries's book makes a valuable
contribution to the scant literature on Newton, while also exposing
the core tenets and evolving philosophies of the Black Panther
Party. Judson L. Jeffries is an assistant professor of political
science at Purdue University. He is the author of Virginia's Native
Son: The Election and Administration of Governor L. Douglas Wilder
(2000), and his work has been published in such periodicals as
Western Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Political Science, and
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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