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What's Sex Got to do with it Anyway? Race, Sex, and Gender in the Black Panther Party
Coulter, Maureen
Coulter, Maureen
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This paper analyzes how members of the Black Panther Party represented themselves as men and women in their newspaper--The Black Panther. I analyze a sample of issues from 1967-1971 to understand gender dynamics within the Party and ask how the newspaper framed gender and sexuality on both individual and societal levels. I employ the concept of controlling images to understand better how these representations are both constructed and contested by members of the Party. I examine assumptions in previous scholarship that present the Panthers' framing of gender and sexuality in dichotomous terms and argue for a more nuanced understanding of gender and sexuality in the Black Panther Party. I find that the Panthers both embraced and contested hegemonic notions of sexuality, gender roles, and gender relations.
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2012-05-31
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University of Kansas
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Sociology, African American studies, Gender studies