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PUNK


Origins: Early 1970s.


BOOKS 


  • 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack': The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation by Paul Gilroy, 1987.





  • Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers by Don Letts, 2007.


  • White Riot Punk Rock and the Politics of Race Edited by Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay, 2011.

  • Punk and Its Afterlives by Jayna Brown, Patrick Deer, Tavia Nyong’o, 2013.



  • Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains by Howie Abrams and James Lathos, 2017.

  • Dayglo: The Poly Styrene Story by Celeste Bell, Zoë Howe, 2019. ︎

  • Black Card by Chris L. Terry, 2019.

  • Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk by Evan Rapport, 2020.

FILMS & SERIES


  • AFROPUNK, dir. James Spooner, 2003. 1h 6m. 

  • A Band Called Death, dir. Mark Covino, Jeff Howlett, 2013. 1h 38m. 


  • Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, dir. Celeste Bell & Paul Sng, 2021. 1h 29m.

PODCASTS & RADIO





ARTICLES









ARTICLES



  • “Riot Grrrl, Race, and Revival" by Mimi Thi Nguyen, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, December 2012. ︎