The author recalls her years as a leader in the Black Panther Party, including her complicated relationship with fellow Panther Huey Newton, her own struggles with racism and sexuality, and what ultimately destroyed the party. Reissue.
Stunning, lyrical, and acute, this is the indelible testimony of a black woman’s battle to define herself. “A glowing achievement.” —Los Angeles Times “Honest, funny, subjective, unsparing, and passionate. . .
James McWilliams, A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (New York: Columbia University Press, ... “This Beautiful Noble Eare: Corn,” in America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking (Chapel Hill: ...
The book engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.
In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how cookbooks became a way for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for Americans to distinguish themselves from ...
I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrades? With these words, Elaine Brown proclaimed to the...
"I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?" So said Elaine Brown on becoming the first female leader of the Black Panther Party in 1974.