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Call for Papers: The Black Panther Party and the American Historical Perspective. Black Panther Party in Historical Perspective Conference Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11-13, 2003 Thirty five years after its founding, the Black Panther Party continues to be ignored by the scholars most qualified to make sense of them -- 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 on American History. The conference organizers hope to move beyond the traditional focus on Oakland, California, 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: 1. How historians have interpreted the Party; 2. What the Black Panther Party looked liked in different locations and what problems it addressed in different parts of the country; 3. How the Panthers evolved over time; 4. 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 PhD's to contribute. We will consider both papers and complete panels. One-page abstracts and cv should be sent by October 15, 2002 to Dr. Jama Lazerow, Conference Coordinator, Department of Arts and Sciences, Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215-4176; Tel.: (617) 879-2180 Email: jlazerow@wheelock.edu or Dr. Yohuru Williams, Associate Coordinator, Department of History, Delaware State University; Tel.: (302) 857-6630 Email: ywilliam@dsc.edu
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