This study examines the activities of two revolutionaries, one Lala Har Dayal (1884–1939) who established in the U.S. the Ghadar Party as an Indian revolutionary party against the British rule in India and the other was Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) who was a founder of the Black P…
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This dissertation offers a reflection on political strategy in response to what I argue is an interventionist sensibility in recent critical and political theory. I demonstrate this sensibility at work across a variety of traditions, styles, and questions among contemporary theo…
This dissertation analyzes the controversial emergence, ideology, activities, and continual political repression of the Baltimore Branch of the Black Panther Party from 1968–1972. Despite the legal successes of the Civil Rights movement, the lukewarm enforcement of civil rights …
A Poetic Revolution: Ericka Huggins, Narrative Resistance, and Erotic Power is a historical and cultural study that broadens our understanding of the Black freedom movement by examining the conspiracy case and prison writing of former Black Panther Ericka Huggins. Using an archi…
This dissertation situates concerns of food access and nutrition at the center of United States struggles for racial justice during the long civil rights era. The persistence of widespread hunger amidst agricultural abundance created a need and an organizing opportunity that pro…
In 1965, black protest began to shift rapidly from a nonviolent movement based on integration and civil rights to one which emphasized the use of self-defense violence, separatism, and black power. The Black Power phase of the movement signified blacks' attempt to establish an i…
The classical grounded theory method was used to examine the patterns of behavior demonstrated by current and former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Nation of Islam. The data collection procedures included observations, interviews, and field notes. A …