Patrick D. Anderson

As Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party and author of the critically-acclaimed 1968 book “Soul on Ice,” Eldridge Cleaver is one of the most important African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. This two-volume collection makes Cleaver’s most controversial, rare, and unpublished works available for the first time. “White Woman/Black Man: The Prison Writings of Eldridge Cleaver” contains letters, short stories, and lost essays from “Soul on Ice.” “Ideological Writings: The Collected Political Works of Eldridge Cleaver” documents Cleaver's evolution as a political theorist during his radical period from 1965 to 1974. These collections establish Cleaver’s status as a Panther theorist, forcing us to rethink “Soul on Ice” and the contours of Black Panther philosophy.