Table of Contents

Introduction: "Theory with No Practice Ain't Shit" 1. "Every Brother on a Rooftop Can Quote Fanon": Black Internationalism, 1955-1966 2. "Army 45 Will Stop All Jive": Origins and Early Operations of the BPP, 1966-1967 3. "We're Relating Right Now to the Third World": Creating an Anticolonial Vernacular, 1967-1968 4. "I Prefer Panthers to Pigs": Transnational and International Connections, 1968-1969 5. "Juche, Baby, All the Way": Cuba, Algeria, and the Asian Strategy, 1969-1970 6. "Gangster Cigarettes" and "Revolutionary Intercommunalism": Diverging Directions in Oakland and Algiers, 1970-1971 7. "Cosmopolitan Guerrillas": The International Section and the RPCN, 1971-1973 8. The Panthers in Winter, 1971-1981 Epilogue: "Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us": From Oakland to Ferguson

About the Author

Sean L. Malloy is Associate Professor of History/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism during the Cold War andAtomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan, both from Cornell.

Reviews

"The foreign policy of the Black Panther Party has not received the attention it deserves, and Out of Oakland fills that gap more than ably. Indeed, what most struck me while reading this book is the degree to which Sean L. Malloy has crafted a narrative that, while focusing on the transnational dimensions of the Panthers, simultaneously offers a comprehensive and outstanding overview of the party's history writ large. In that way, Malloy succeeds where many transnational histories fail-to interweave the transnational with the national and even the local."-Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University, author of The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover "Out of Oakland is an exciting and robust narrative of black internationalism as told through the rise and fragmentation of the Black Panther Party. Sean L. Malloy writes in an engaging manner and offers a complex, nuanced study of how the Panthers used Third World, anti-imperialist, and anticapitalist politics to conceptualize the colonized status of African Americans in the United States and to develop political connections globally. Malloy takes seriously the internationalist political ideas and diplomacy of Panther leaders, particularly Eldridge Cleaver. Out of Oakland will be of great interest to readers interested in black internationalism, the Black Panther Party, Third World politics, and the Cold War."-Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, author of Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era