Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword James Spooner, director of Afro-Punk xiii
1 White Riot? 1
Stephen Duncombe and Maxwell Tremblay 1
2 Rock 'N' Roll Nigger 18
"The White Negro" Norman Mailer 19
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" James Baldwin 23
"White Riot" Weatherman Songbook 27
liner notes to MC5's Kick Out the Jams! John Sinclair 28
"Kick Out the Jams! The MC5 and the Politics of Noise" Steve Waksman 30
liner notes to "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger" Patti Smith 37
"Bleached Roots: Punks and White Ethnicity" Dick Hebdige 38
3 White Minority 44
"Hotsy-Totsy Nazi Schatzes: Nazi Imagery and the Final Solution to the Final Solution" Steven Lee Beeber 45
"Pistol-Whipped," National Review Edward Meadows 54
"'I Won't Let that Dago By': Rethinking Punk and Racism" Roger Sabin 57
Sham 69, interview in Sounds Jimmy Pursey 69
Fuck-Ups, interview in Maximumrocknroll Bob Noxious 72
interview in Ripper Black Flag 75
"Crimes Against Nature" Greil Marcus 78
"L.A.'s 'White Minority': Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization" Daniel S. Traber 82
on "Guilty of Being White," in Maximumrocknroll Vic Bondi Dave Dictor Ian MacKaye 99
"The White Noise Supremacists" Lester Bangs 105
4 White Power 114
"The Skinheads and the Magical Recovery of Community" John Clarke 115
"Subcultutes, Pop Music and Politics: Skinheads and 'Nazi Rock in England and Germany" Timothy S. Brown 120
interview in Terminal Ian Stuart Skrewdriver 130
Majority of One, review and letter exchange in Maximumrocknroll 133
"Music of the White Resistance" George Eric Hawthorne RaHo Wa 135
"Rock 'n' Roll: White or Black?" Skinned Alive Anonymous 142
interview in Maximumrocknroll Kieran Knutson Anti-Racist Action 146
Lili the Skinbird, "Associating with Racists: A Way to Promote Anti-Racism?" Crossbreed 151
5 Punky Reggae Party 154
England's Dreaming Jon Savage 155
Clash, interview in Search & Destroy Paul Simonon 168
Beating Time David Widgery 170
"Two Sides of Anti-Racism" Paul Gilroy 177
"A New Punk Manifesto," Profane Existence Joel Olson 190
"Not Just Posing for the Postcard: A Discussion of Punk and the New Abolition," Clamor Anonymous 194
"Screaming, Always Screaming," HeartattaCk Daisy Rooks 198
"Race, Anarchy and Punk Rock: The Impact of Cultural Boundaries Within the Anarchist Movement" Otto Nomous 201
6 We're That Spic Band 206
"Play Like a White Boy: Hard Dancing in the City of Chocolate" Darryl A. Jenifer Bad Brains 207
"Hardcore of Darkness: Bad Brains" Greg Tate 212
Black Culture, White Youth: The Reggae Tradition from JA to UK Simon Jones 216
Scream, interview in Flipside Skeeter Thompson 220
"¿Soy Punkera, y Qué?" Michelle Habell-Pallán 222
interview with the BBC Alien Kulture 231
"Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker" Michael Muhammad Knight 235
"Taqwacore: Salat, Angst, and Rock & Roll" Siddhartha Mitter 235
interview in Maximumrocknroll Los Crudos 241
interview in Maximumrocknroll Martín Sorrondeguy 248
Afro-Punk: The "Bock 'n' Roll Nigger" Experience, from the film script 251
7 Race Riot 256
"It's (Not) a White World: Looking for Race in Punk," Punk Planet Mimi Nguyen 257
"Just Another Nigger," letter exchange in Maximumrocknroll 268
"What Happened?" Chop Suey Spex Kelly Besser 277
"How Can You Be So Cold?" How to Stage a Coup Madhu Krishnan 278
"Black Invisibility and Racism in Punk Rock," Bitchcore Tasha Fierce 281
"I am Colorblind," Race Riot Vincent Chung 284
Anti-Product, interview in HeartattaCk Taina Del Valle 285
"Try Not To to Think: Forgetting the Forgotten Rebels," Broken Pencil Krishna Rau 289
8 I'm So Bored with the USA (and the UK Too) 295
Vírus 27, interview in Chiclete com Banana 296
"Punk and Globalization: Mexico City and Toronto" Alan O'Connor 299
"Rock with Punk with Pop with Folklore: Transformations and Renewal in Aterciopelados and Café Tacuba" Carmelo Esterrich Javier H. Murillo 307
"Living the Punk Lifestyle in Jakarta" Jeremy Wallach 317
The Punks Are Alright: A Punk Rock Safari from the First World to the Third, interview in Blind Pigs 333
Esneider of Huasipungo, "Migrapunk," Maximumrocknroll 335
Notes 339
Permissions 367
