| ID | 123846 |
| Title Proper | Uptight in Babylon |
| Other Title Information | Eldridge Cleaver's cold war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Malloy, Sean L |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) was a key figure in the U.S. black power movement in the late sixties and early seventies whose globe-trotting freelance diplomacy on behalf of the Black Panther Party (BPP) led him from Soledad prison to the streets of Oakland, California and from there to Havana, Algiers, Pyongyang, Beijing, Hanoi, Brazzaville, and Paris. Cleaver's party-building efforts with the BPP illustrated the powerful appeal of an anticolonial analysis that looked beyond the East-West dynamics of the Cold War to position people of color as part of a global North-South struggle over decolonization. Cleaver's journey also illustrated the continuing and ultimately tragic relevance of the Cold War to the evolution of the African American freedom struggle. In establishing the International Section of the BPP, Cleaver found himself dependent on the whims of his new allies and highly sensitive to changes in the Cold War environment. |
| `In' analytical Note | Diplomatic History Vol. 37, No.3; Jun 2013: p.538-571 |
| Journal Source | Diplomatic History Vol. 37, No.3; Jun 2013: p.538-571 |
| Key Words | Babylon ; United States ; Diplomacy ; Black Panther Party (BPP) ; Oakland ; California ; American Freedom Struggle |