num_pages: 392
description: From the Clash to Los Crudos skinheads to afro-punks the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the definitive study of the subject collecting first-person writing lyrics letters to zines and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.
language: English
title: White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race
publisher: Verso