Racism and Resistance: How the Black Panthers Challenged White Supremacy (Political Science)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 383763857X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Franziska Meister is a science and culture editor at the Swiss weekly WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung.
About the Author Franziska Meister is a science and culture editor at the Swiss weekly WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung.
She shows how the Panthers were engaged in exposing structural racism in the U.S. Meister thus highlights an often marginalized aspect of the Panthers: how they sought to reach a world beyond raceby going through race. Even a cursory look at American society today reveals that protests against racial discrimination are by no means a thing of the past. What can we learn from past movements in order to understand the workings of racism and resistance? In this book, Franziska Meister revisits the Black Panther Party and offers a new perspective on the party as a whole and its struggle for racial social justice. Theirs, she argues, is a message well worth considering in an age of "color blindness.".