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Black Panther Party in Historical Perspective Conference
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2002-10-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-07-25 |
| Announcement ID: |
130893 |
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Thirty five years after its founding, the Black Panther Party continues to be ignored by the scholars most qualified to make sense of it -- namely, historians in the academy. This conference seeks to redress this imbalance in American historiography by bringing together historians to consider the impact of the Black Panther Party. The conference organizers hope to move beyond the traditional focus on Oakland and the celebrated trials of a few leaders and look at the Panthers as a multi-dimensional national (and international) phenomenon, with roots and diverse experiences in many communities, in an effort to place it into the larger historical framework of the civil rights movement, black power movement, and the 1960's retreat from liberalism. We seek papers dealing with, but not limited to:
- How historians have treated the Party
- What the Black Panther Party looked liked in different locations and what problems it addressed in different parts of the country
- How the Panthers evolved over time
- The significance of the Party in the history of Sixties movements, black radicalism, Afro-America, and American history generally.
We especially encourage graduate students and recent PhDs to submit papers. We will consider both papers and complete panels. One-page abstracts and cv should be sent by October 15, 2002.
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Dr. Jama Lazerow
Conference Coordinator
Department of Arts and Sciences
Wheelock College
200 The Riverway
Boston, MA 02215-4176
Tel.: (617) 758-5750
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Dr. Yohuru Williams
Associate Coordinator
Department of History
Delaware State University
Tel.: (302) 857-6630
Email: ywilliam@dsc.edu
Email: jlazerow@wheelock.edu
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