Article Review Black Panther

ARTICLE REVIEW: BLACK PANTHER

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Illner, Peer. “Who’s calling the Emergency? The Black Panthers, Securitization and the Question

of Identity”, Culture Unbound 7, (2015): 479-495. Accessed December 11, 2017.

http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se

Illner works present a discussion on the American Black Panther issues on securitization

and self-defense. Illner attempts to offer illumination of the performance dynamics associated

with an emergency declaration. Illner's main argument is that the Black Panther viewed the

everyday life in the United States of America as a way of safeguarding a racial identity.

Illner

argues that the Black Panther, nevertheless, turns to peaceful community service; however,

people cannot understand such activities using the logical ontological security. The Black

Panther Party advocated for the peaceful struggle, which Illner views as insecurity founded on

racial identity.

The Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded by Huey Newton in 1966 as a means of self-

defense. The party membership picked by the early 1970s, and the party organizers established

offices across the United States of America. In his November 18, 1970, speech, Huey Newton

argued that the African Americans were threatened with extermination and were systematically

oppressed by the white supremacists.

Newton opines the abolition of slavery did not extend any

freedom to the former slaves but only gave them the subject of the pauper and ghetto-dwelling

criminal.

The Black Panthers’ saw their situation in the United States and their political agenda

was comparable to other anti-colonial struggles. The Party also was of the opinion that the

Constitution and other legal systems as a function of the oppression of the African American

people. Out of these concerns, the Black Panther advocated for a type of revolution that would be

. Peer Illner, “Who's calling the Emergency? The Black Panthers, Securitization and the Question of

Identity Culture Unbound” 7 (2015): 480. accessed December 11, 2017, http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se

. Ibid. 480.

achieved by the African Americans taking arms to defend their identity. The approach can be

seen as an attempt at radicalization, which was supposed to terrorize the white masters.

According to Illner, the BPP was divided with some people advocating for violence, while

another group supported peaceful resistance.

Garcha, Kiran Amber. “Bring the Vanguard Home: Revisiting the Black Panther Party's Sites of

Class Struggle.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9, no.4 (July 2016): 1-16.

Accessed December 11, 2017. https://www.viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/bringing-the-

vanguard-home-revisiting-the-black-panther-partys-sites-of-class-struggle/

Garcha illuminates the Black Panther members’ household roles. According to the

research, the author opines that the household existed to a large extent as a luminal and, more

specifically, it functioned as a significant site of differences between the BPP members and as a

site of social reproduction.

The article offers a list of the ills that gave rise to the Black

Panther’s resistance including the argument that the state activities hindered the African

American families from performing their reproductive labor, police violence, and poor public

schools. The BPP reacted by calling for self-determination. Garcha opines that the state response

to the African American militancy did not only occur in the open spaces that are accessible by

the public, but also in the household units which were treated as targets of government

subversion. Of interest is the BPP’s anti-colonial political ideology, which was often transmitted

across generations in the confines of the domestic spaces.

It means, therefore, the household and

the family units were used as vehicles for the teaching of the essence of the political struggle.

. Kiran Amber Garcha, “Bring the Vanguard Home: Revisiting the Black Panther Party's Sites of Class

Struggle”, Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9, no.4 (July 2016): 2 accessed December 11, 2017.

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/bringing-the-vanguard-home-revisiting-the-black-panther-partys-sites-

of-class-struggle/

. Garcha, “Bring the Vanguard Home”, 3.

The BPP had also advocated and experimented with communal living arguing that the

nuclear family represented a challenge to the socialist ideals of parenthood. As a consequence,

the BPP members were supposed to practice collective living arrangement with the home being

used as sleeping quarters, meeting centers, and all-night diners.

In the article, Garcha traces how

the BPP members’ home life was manifested. In this regard, the article maps a special layout of

the BPP members’ household, how the children were nurtured, including socialization and

education of the children, and how they prepared them for a post-colonial future.

. Ibid. 5.

Bibliography

Garcha, Kiran Amber. “Bring the Vanguard Home: Revisiting the Black Panther Party's Sites of

Class Struggle”. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies 9, no.4 (July 2016): 1-

16. Accessed December 11, 2017. https://www.viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/bringing-

the-vanguard-home-revisiting-the-black-panther-partys-sites-of-class-struggle/

Illner, Peer. Who’s calling the Emergency? The Black Panthers, Securitization and the Question

of Identity, Culture Unbound 7 (2015): 479-495 accessed:

http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se

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