In the essay “The White Album,” Joan Didion describes visiting the apartment of a member of this group who mocks “Guardian dinners” that are like “an old wake.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this political group whose members included the playwright Ed Bullins. A future member of this group addressed love letters to Beverly Axelrod in his memoir Soul on Ice.
ANSWER: Black Panthers [or Black Panther Party or BPP; or Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; prompt on the Panthers]
[10h] Leonard Bernstein’s fundraiser for the Black Panthers led an author to coin this term for performative elite adoption of extremism. An essay about this term was published with the essay “Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.”
ANSWER: radical chic (The essay “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s” is by Tom Wolfe.)
[10e] In 1968, this author hosted a birthday party for the then-imprisoned Black Panther leader Huey Newton. This gay Black author and intellectual wrote Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time.
ANSWER: James Baldwin
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