This course will explore the rise of the Oakland, California based Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the role of the organization in rearticulating the urban narrative of resistance to power in America in the 1960s and 1970s. The course will begin with an analysis of theories of black revolutionary politics, and the works of important leaders such as Malcolm X, Angela Davis and Huey P. Newton; then explore the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party as it impacted the popular consciousness in the US; interspersed by a discussion of the music, film and popular culture that resulted from it. Through this process, students will gain an understanding of the significance of symbols and ideas in the representations of African Americans in the context of movements for social change in the US.

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