Framing the Black Panthers [electronic resource] : the spectacular rise of a Black power icon / Jane Rhodes ; with a new preface.

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"The 1960s may be over, but the Black Panthers--the ultimate symbol of black power, radical inspiration, and the excesses of the decade--live on. Books on the Panthers continue to be written, hip-hop artists continue to draw inspiration from them, and so many films are made about the Panthers that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rhodes, Jane, 1955- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Black Panther Party > History. Black Panther Party > Public opinion. Black Panther Party > Press coverage. Journalism > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Mass media > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans in mass media. African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century. Black power > United States > History > 20th century. Public opinion > United States. United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Spectacular rise of a Black power icon Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Forty years in hindsight : the Black Panthers in popular memory
Black America in the public sphere
Becoming media subjects
Revolutionary culture and the politics of self-representation
Free Huey: 1968
A trial of the Black Liberation Movement
From campus celebrity to radical chic
Servants of the people : the Black Panthers as national and global icons
The rise and fall of a media frenzy : the 1970s
Conclusion.