The Panthers aimed at perceptual revolution and virile manhood, not systemic reform.

Evidence

The animating idea behind Douglas’s visual art and the ideology of the party as a whole was not to reform the system in order to include black people but, rather, to foster a revolution at the level of perception and experience—to fundamentally transform the entire society and assert a virile black manhood, in the form of the party itself, at its helm. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 292

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Panthers’ distinguishing project: a revolution at the level of perception and experience rather than inclusion-based reform.