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The Huey P. Newton Reader Paperback – May 7, 2002

by Huey P. Newton (Author), David Hilliard (Editor, Introduction), Donald Weise (Editor),

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The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI infiltration of civil rights groups, the Vietnam War, and the burgeoning feminist movement with never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton’s private collection, including articles on President Nixon, prison martyr George Jackson, Pan-Africanism, affirmative action, and the author’s only written account of his political exile in Cuba in the mid-1970s. Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Geronimo Pratt all came to international prominence through Newton’s groundbreaking political activism. Additionally, Newton served as the Party’s chief intellectual engine, conversing with world leaders such as Yasser Arafat, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, and Mozambique President Samora Moises Machel among others.

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368 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Seven Stories Press
Publication date

May 7, 2002
Dimensions

6.1 x 1 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

158322467X
ISBN-13

978-1583224670
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This is the first collection of writings by the founder of the Black Panther Party since his death in 1989. Ten of the 36 selections were published in To Die for the People, an earlier collection released in 1972; the remainder were written after that publication. The book represents the many transformations of Newton's and the party's political ideologies and motivations, including support of the feminist and gay rights movements. Between the opening coverage of how and why Newton and Bobby Seale mobilized the black community to support a program of armed self-defense to the closing excerpts from Newton's Ph.D. dissertation outlining the FBI's COINTELPRO activities to dismantle the Black Panther Party are passionate and captivating writings that reveal a widely read political theorist committed to putting theory into practice to make a better world. This book is essential reading and primary-source research material for understanding the Black Panther Party, grass-roots organizing at its best, and the black power movement. Suitable for public and academic libraries. Sherri Barnes, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Libs.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"In our messy situation where (whatever remains of) the radical Left is constantly sabotaging itself with its Politically Correct moralism, a Huey Newton reader is needed like daily bread: a remainder of a time half a century ago when incisive philosophical thinking was immediately linked to practical political engagement. Newton was a Communist who saw the struggle for decolonization as outdated, a materialist keeping an eye open for extrasensory perception… Our task is not to return to Newton but to repeat his gesture in today’s predicament. The future of the American radical Left will be Newtonian—or there will be none!" —Slavoj Zizek

"Huey Newton was a hero who brought life blood into a dream of freedom for all of us runaway slaves." —Elaine Brown, author of A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; First Edition (May 7, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158322467X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583224670
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #706,334 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,286 in Black & African American Biographies
- #2,713 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #3,463 in Political Leader Biographies

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Lowell B. Denny

Huey Newton a Revolutionary ahead of his times

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2014

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Huey Newton was murdered a few months after I moved to San Francisco, aged 22, just out of college. He was the stuff of legend. Famous and infamous. That was many years ago, where I have read many books by activists and revolutionaries. This one stunned me. Huey Newton doesn't deserve the legend he's earned ... No. He's not simply a radical loudmouth that the Establishment would have you believe. He constantly described himself the "theoretician" of the BPP, and he is that: a broad-thinking, critical, constantly evolving revolutionary. He was a man ahead of his time. I am on the second read of the book, having just gotten it. He wows me at so many turns as he breaks down his prison experience, the ruling class, technology, his stance in support of gay and women's liberation* [note: this was a time when those movements were radical, not bourgeois, but stigmatized by a homophobic and macho society]; Huey cut right through that.

You cannot be a radical or a revolutionary in the US and NOT read this book. It IS a must. For one, too often the African experience is overlooked, and two, stodgy intellectuals see Huey as that stuff of legend and perhaps think they cannot stomach the rhetoric. His penetrating excavations remind me of things I've read by Angela Davis, only Newton clearly is trying desperately to reach his audience. Hes states a thesis, then seeming unsure of himself breaks it down and down into smaller pieces.

Finally, I was encouraged to see a clip of him on a Bay Area show a year before he died. He was lucid and just as revolutionary into his 40's where some of his peers have sold out.

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Marcos

Excellent collection

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2012

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Must read for any Huey P. Newton fan or anyone interested in black panther theories. I think that the Panthers focused too much on race on not class (it is the ruling class, predominately white, that is the object of the theoried oppression, not the white race, and the Panthers and Huey made the bad mistake of separating like minded progressive poor whites or possible ones that they could have recruited by using bad rhetoric, such as constantly naming the enemy as "The White Man" not "The Ruling Class" While they essentially did have there eyes on the proper enemy, they, as I said, made the huge mistake, including Huey, of using that improper rhetoric and separating many working class, poor, and other whites who could have been allies to their civil rights and other causes, and also demonized themselves this way in the media).

Despite this, the Huey P. Newton reader, along with his autobiography "Revolutionary Suicide" which Penguin finally reprinted a few years ago which was long overdue, are must reads for any activist, anarchist, anarcho-socialist, liberatarian, in order to add to their socio-political tool belt.

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Chris

This book speaks to working class black men like nothing else I've ever read

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2018

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This is one of the most brilliant minds I've ever read his theory and analysis is second to none. Priceless