Cross-pollinating the revolution
From Havana to Oakland and back again
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa M Corrigan |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 452-465 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2014.925700 |
| OpenAlex | W2165057669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article charts the intellectual history of the Cuban Revolution's impact on the ideology and politics of the Black Panther Party. In doing so, it begins with a discussion of the central biological metaphor of "cross-pollination" to understand how the ideas of Che Guevara influenced Black Panther George Jackson's revolutionary praxis. The second section of the article charts Guevara anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist arguments as well as his "foco" theory concerning the vanguard guerilla's revolutionary tactics. It then documents the pollinations of these ideas in George Jackson's prison writings to demonstrate how the Black Panther conceptualized internal colonization, articulated a black vanguard, and formulated new black leadership tactics. This section demonstrates how Jackson's writings circulated and augmented Guevara's revolutionary theses to build Black Panther ideologies about black identity, leadership, self-defense and anti-colonialism. Thus, Black Panther writers were able to successfully connect the struggle of black Americans to the struggles of Third World movements across the globe, thereby substantially altering the civil rights movement in the US. Finally, this article provides an assessment of the influence that the Black Panthers have had in Cuba, particularly on hip-hop culture, to suggest that black power activists have provided intellectual resources that re-pollinated Cuban culture
Ancient history · Black Power · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vanguard · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Cuban History and Society · Race, History, and American Society · Gender Studies · History · Law
Cuba Represent!
Che Guevara
On social movements and culture
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Black Nationalism and Rap Music
"It Was like a Fever …" Narrative and Identity in Social Protest
Metaphor and Postcoloniality
Spectres of the Third World
Havana up in Harlem
Colonial Desire
Politics and Post-colonial Theory
The Interpretation of Cultures
Decadence and the Organic Metaphor
Periodizing the 60s
The Hybrid Metaphor
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Ideological Language and Social Movement Mobilization
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |