Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party

Manchanda, Nivi; Rossdale, Chris

doi:10.1177/0967010621997220

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“…For instance, Seale wrote in the Party's newspaper Black Panther that '[t]he same thing they're doing over there to the Vietnamese people, they're getting ready to upstep and do to Black American people. The same thing; the same kind of weapons' (Seale, 2014: 92; see also Bloom and Martin, 2013: 83-86;Manchanda and Rossdale, 2021).…”

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Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Rossdale

2021

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Recent interventions in critical security studies have argued that the field has struggled to account for the racialised/racist foundations of security politics. This article engages with the US Black Panther Party (BPP), arguing that the Party did important work to show how security politics is dependent on racial violence. The idea that we can theorise global politics through struggle (`struggle as method’) is becoming popular within disciplinary International Relations (IR), but has longer lineages in Black radical thought. The BPP were important advocates of struggle as method, with tactics and strategies intentionally designed with a pedagogical purpose; through Panther actions (including community self-defence and survival programmes), and the state’s response to these, the mechanisms of capitalist white supremacy were laid bare. The article therefore acknowledges BPP action as a series of theoretical interventions, which demonstrated how the terms of US/white security are rooted in and dependent on anti-Blackness. It also shows how Panther tactics prefigured alternative, radical, anti-statist approaches to security, these conceptualised as `survival pending revolution’. The article closes by arguing that scholarship on critical security studies - especially as related to the racialised politics of security - should do more to work with and acknowledge its indebtedness to struggle as method.

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Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Rossdale

2021

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“…These popular discussions typically omitted any discussion of what had happened in the intervening 50 years. Even some academics skip over the decades in between when they describe continuities between the Civil Rights and Black Lives eras (e.g., Francis and Wright-Rigueur 2021, Manchanda and Rossdale 2021, McKersie 2021, Nummi, Jennings and Feagin 2019.…”

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Comparing Coverage of Black Protests in Mainstream Newswires and Black Newspapers

Oliver¹,

Lim²

2022

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This working paper prepared for the 2022 Mobilization Conference, San Diego California, June 25, 2022 presents preliminary results from an ongoing project compiling data on Black protest events in the US in the 1990s and 2000s from Black newspapers and comparing it with previously-collected data from mainstream (White) newswires. We have processed 89% of the Black newspaper articles for 1994-2010, the years that overlap with the newswires. We distinguish between Black newspaper coverage of local events that occurred in the same state where the newspaper is published and Black newspaper coverage of nonlocal events. Some broad patterns can be seen. (1) Most events are mentioned only once and there is low overlap among news sources: Of all identified events, only 6% appeared in both newswires and Black newspapers. Of events mentioned in newswires, 21% were mentioned in a Black newspaper. Of events given nonlocal Black newspaper coverage, 15% were covered by newswires, while of events given local Black newspaper coverage, 5% were covered by newswires. (2) All sources give high prominence to issues of police and police violence, but this emphasis is even stronger in the newswires than Black newspapers. All source types also give more emphasis to police and police violence for events in New York than for events elsewhere. (3) Events involving workers and unions receive a great deal of local coverage in Black newspapers, but much less coverage in newswires or non-local Black newspapers. (4) There was a marked drop-off in newswire and non-local Black newspaper and newswire coverage after the 9/11 terror attacks, but not in local Black newspaper coverage of events outside New York. We provide exploratory comparative information on the coverage of other issues and major events. Note: Parts of the introduction to this working paper are drawn from our 2022 article "Black Protests in the United States, 1994-2010." Sociological Science 9(May): 275-312. There are also overlaps in the discussion of methods between that paper and this working paper.

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“…When the Black Lives Movement 2 (BLM) emerged in 2014, many popular discussions compared it to the Civil Rights era, implying there had been no Black movement since the 1960s. Even some academics skip over these decades in describing continuities between the Civil Rights and Black Lives eras (e.g., Francis and Wright-Rigueur 2021, Manchanda and Rossdale 2021, McKersie 2021, Nummi, Jennings and Feagin 2019, and there is relatively little scholarship on the Black movement around the turn of the millennium. We use unique, newly collected data on Black protest events from 1994 to 2010 to provide the first panoramic view of Black activism in this period.…”

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Black Protests in the US, 1994-2010

Oliver¹,

Lim²,

Matthews³

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We use a novel dataset to provide the first panoramic view of US Black movement protest events as reported in US newswires between 1994 and 2010 and put our quantitative data into dialog with qualitative accounts of the period. Struggles during these years presaged the Black Lives protest waves of 2014-2016 and 2020. We find that protests were building in frequency in the 1990s after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and the widely discussed 1995 Million Man March into 2001, but dropped abruptly after the 9/11 attacks, with mobilization building again at the end of the 2000s. Protests in response to police violence and other criminal legal issues were major arenas of struggle and news coverage. Also common were issues of national identity including celebrations of Black history and Black solidarity, protests against Confederate symbols, and protests about White hate groups and hate crimes. While Black people protested about a wide variety of issues, mainstream national media attention focused disproportionately on incidents of police violence and perceived threats of Black violence. We find substantial continuity in issues, organizations, and activism between this period and the Black Lives Movement of 2014-2020. Content warning: parts of this article describe incidents of police violence.

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Resisting racial militarism: War, policing and the Black Panther Party

Cited by 23 publications

References 43 publications

Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Comparing Coverage of Black Protests in Mainstream Newswires and Black Newspapers

Black Protests in the US, 1994-2010

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