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Book Review


Up against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. By Curtis J. Austin. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. xxx, 456 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-1-55728-827-1.)
Although the Black Panther party (BPP) has been the subject of many autobiographical and journalistic accounts, it arguably remains one of the least understood of all the black power organizations. While recent scholarly monographs on black power such as Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar's Black Power (2004) and Peniel E. Josephs's Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour (2006) have ably situated the BPP within the wider movement, Up against the Wall is one of the first scholarly monographs to take a thematic and national approach to the history of the BPP. . . .
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