Elaine Brown, a Taste of Power
Elaine Brown's autobiography A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story provides a snapshot of life in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Brown briefly rose to the leadership of the Black Panther Party. In North Philadelphia born and raised, Brown dropped out of Temple University and traveled west seeking a musical career in Hollywood, much like another noteworthy figure from this period obsessed with the mass insurrection of America's black population, Charles Manson. Brown, however, ended up not at the Spahn Ranch but at the Pink Pussycat, working as a cocktail waitress in "the hottest spot in West Hollywood" (74). She soon acquired a white lover, who talks of Stokely Carmichael over a meal of "Piper Heidieck champagne, bottled in 1952…beluga caviar…cracked crab with a mustard sauce. Our dinner was lamb, served on skewers, with wild rice" (80). After this a "radicalization" rapidly occurred with Brown joining the nascent Black Panther Party and eventually rising to its leadership. But the chief value of the book is to demonstrate something that Brown admits late in the book: in her revolutionary struggle, "sexism was a secondary problem. Capitalism and race were primary" (381). In particular, a feminist analysis of Brown's political activities raises troubling issues about the patriarchal nature of the Black Panther Party, even under Brown's own leadership, and demonstrates her own belated discovery of feminism.
Brown traces her radicalization to a moment when a friend introduces her to the modish best-selling collection of essays Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, first published in the magazine Ramparts edited by David Horowitz. It is worth noting here that Eldridge Cleaver was a convicted rapist, as Brown notes when a friend buys a copy of his book:
She had purchased Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver's book Soul on Ice….It was an incisive autobiographical excursion into the mind of a black man driven by racism to rape, for which Eldridge had spent nine years in prison. When we finished the book, we vowed we would meet him: the minister of information of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver. When Sandra...
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