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" “Why Don’t You Die for the People?” Memory and Martyrdom in the Black Panther Party "
Dong, Cheryl Xue
Croxatto, Cecilia Mouat;McGill, Alicia;Charron, Katherine Mellen;Kelley, Blair Lynne
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1114277
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TLpq2406472236
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Croxatto, Cecilia Mouat
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Dong, Cheryl Xue
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“Why Don’t You Die for the People?” Memory and Martyrdom in the Black Panther Party\ Dong, Cheryl XueCroxatto, Cecilia Mouat;McGill, Alicia;Charron, Katherine Mellen;Kelley, Blair Lynne
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North Carolina State University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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333
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My dissertation explores the concept of martyrdom in the Black Panther Party. It challenges established narratives of violence and the Black Panther Party by showing how the Panthers used confrontations with law enforcement as a creative force to shed light on the struggles of poor black communities. By publicly performing suffering and death nationally, the Panthers politicized not just police brutality, but a number of institutional inequalities within the criminal justice system and elsewhere. The dissertation is divided into three case studies: the assassination of Fred Hampton in Chicago, the trial of Ericka Huggins in New Haven, and the campaign against urban renewal in Winston-Salem. Together, they run the spectrum from nationally publicized trials to more localized struggles for community services. Finally, I consider issues of contested memory and memorialization of the Panthers. The various case studies draw a direct throughline between the struggles of the Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s to social movements like Black Lives Matter, enabling a longer historical view of black radicalism and protest.
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African American studies
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American history
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Black Panther Party
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Institutional inequalities
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Martyrdom
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Charron, Katherine Mellen
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McGill, Alicia
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