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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 ...

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 andactivist.

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 con

Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In so doing it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by Black women scholars, celebrating Black women's agency and pragmatic activism. Refusing to be ...

Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In so doing it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by Black women scholars, celebrating Black women's agency and pragmatic activism. Refusing to be limited by notions of disciplinary boundaries or divisions between theory and practice, Theorizing Black Feminisms draws on literature, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and art. In four sections - on `revising paradigms', `theory and action', `controlling our bodies', and `the language of identities', sixteen essays cover a range of diverse issues, including: * Theorizing race, class and gender in the new Black feminist scholarship * Women and collective action * Rape, HIV transmission, abortion and African-American women * Discouse, critique and identity: languages of the self Theorizing Black Feminisms is vital reading for anyone - activist, student, artist or scholar - interested in exploring the multidisciplinary possiblities of Black feminism. Exciting and innovative, the volume both reflects and intervenes in a rapidly expanding field.