David F. Walker
Autore di The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di David F. Walker
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom (2019) — Autore — 116 copie
The Hated 1 copia
Bitter Root #8 1 copia
LUKE CAGE No. 168 1 copia
Cyborg 1 copia
DC Sneak Peek: Cyborg #1 1 copia
Catalyst Prime Superb #7 1 copia
Becoming Black: Personal Ramblings on Racial Identification, Racism, and Popular Culture (2013) 1 copia
Nighthawk #1 1 copia
Nighthawk #3 1 copia
Nighthawk #2 1 copia
Nighthawk #4 1 copia
Secret Wars: Battleworld #2 1 copia
Occupy Avengers #1 1 copia
Nighthawk (2016) #1 1 copia
Opere correlate
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (2015) — Collaboratore — 609 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1968
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- comic book writer
author
filmmaker
journalist
teacher - Organizzazioni
- Portland State University
Solid Comix
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 71
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 878
- Popolarità
- #29,161
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 43
- ISBN
- 61
- Lingue
- 1
Walker writes in his afterword, “It is worth nothing that, more than 50 years after Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party and drafted the Ten-Point Program as their guiding manifesto, every single concern they addressed is still relevant. Every single inequality, injustice, and form of oppression impacting the Black community in 1966 is still going strong, well into the 21st century. What the Panthers wanted in 1966, we still want now. What they believed, we still know to be true” (pg. 173). Amid the racial reckoning of 2020 and the inevitable conservative pushback against progressive goals, Walker and Anderson’s The Black Panther Party is a great foundational text for those who want to know more about the organization’s history and the people that shaped its role in society during the revolutionary era of the 1960s and 1970s. As we find ourselves facing another era of great social change, Walker and Anderson’s book is critically vital to learn from the past in order to improve the future. Finally, Walker and Anderson’s careful research makes this a useful text for history teachers to help their students engage with the history of the Black Panthers and their place in the larger Civil Rights Movement.… (altro)