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Just Another Nigger
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Just Another Nigger is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more m...
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01 February 2019

Just Another Nigger is Don Cox's revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his work as the party's field marshal in charge of gunrunning to planning armed attacks—tales which are told for the first time in this remarkable memoir—to his star turn raising money at the Manhattan home of Leonard Bernstein (for which he was famously mocked by Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers), to his subsequent flight to Algeria to join Eldridge Cleaver in exile, to his decision to leave the party following his disillusionment with Huey P. Newton's leadership. Cox would live out the rest of his life in self-imposed exile, where he began writing these unrepentant recollections in the early 1980s, enjoining his daughter to promise him that she would do everything she could to have them published—with the title he insisted upon, a nod to W. E. B. Du Bois's remark that “In my own country, for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.”
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Publisher: Heyday
Imprint: Heyday
Publication Date:
01 February 2019
ISBN: 9781597144605
Format: eBook
BISACs:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
“Complex, provocative.... A gripping record of a fraught era.”—Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle
“Plainspoken and direct, Cox's writing achieves an eloquence that makes it exceedingly readable, never losing the drama of the story he is telling.”—Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch
“An excellent addition to the pantheon of Panther literature.”—Publishers Weekly
“Intimate and exciting...a valuable primary-source recollection from a turbulent time.”—Kirkus Reviews