Revolutionary Suicide

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Revolutionary Suicide is a 1973 autobiography and political manifesto by Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, reflecting on his life, the Black liberation struggle, and radical resistance to oppression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiography
book
political manifesto
author Huey P. Newton
coAuthor J. Herman Blake
contrastsWithConcept reactionary suicide
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depictsEvent Huey P. Newton's trials and imprisonment
formation of the Black Panther Party
describesOrganization Black Panther Party
focusesOnLocation Oakland
surface form: Oakland, California
genre African American literature
surface form: African-American literature

autobiography
political literature
hasFormat audiobook
e-book
hardcover
paperback
hasISBN 9780156788704
influenced Black radical thought
contemporary social movements
prison abolition discourse
language English
literaryMovement African-American radical tradition
Black Power literature
mainCharacter Huey P. Newton
mediaType print
notableFor analysis of state violence against Black radicals
articulation of revolutionary suicide as a political concept
first-person account of Black Panther Party leadership
publicationYear 1973
publisher Harcourt Brace & World
surface form: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
setting California state prison system
surface form: California prisons

Oakland
surface form: Oakland, California
subject Black Panther Party
Black Power movement
Black liberation struggle
Marxism
anticolonialism
police brutality
political repression
prison experience
racism in the United States
radical politics
revolutionary theory
timePeriodCovered 1960s
early 1970s
titleExplainsConcept revolutionary suicide

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Huey P. Newton notableWork Revolutionary Suicide
Huey notableWork Revolutionary Suicide
subject surface form: Huey P. Newton