Category: afropunk

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Speaking Truth to Power: Robert Fitzgerald’s “Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan”

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Shut up, put one in the air’Cause when I get it, I get it out everywhereServing and slinging, I’m not sitting scaredElites don’t fight fair, I got no time to care40 years of Reaganomics, n****, this what we getN****, it is what it is, the world in service and shitDeliver food we spit in, can’t even cook for they kidsYo, my n**** stay flipping … Read More Speaking Truth to Power: Robert Fitzgerald’s “Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan”

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Zine Assignment in the Composition Classroom

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This semester, I am teaching Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl and Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl. Since I am teaching two memoirs by musicians who came of age and still work within the punk and indie scene, I wanted students to make zines for one of their projects. I have always thought about having students make zines in class; however, I have never had the opportunity … Read More Zine Assignment in the Composition Classroom

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+ afropunk, comics, graphic novels, james spooner, music, punk

The Misappropriation of Anti-Racist Punk Classics

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In The High Desert: black. punk. nowhere., James Spooner details growing up as a Black kid in Apple Valley, California, and being into punk rock. He details the liminality he felt, being seen as not Black enough by his Black classmates or as nonwhite by his white punk friends. When Spooner met Ty, a Black punk kid, at school, he fell in love with … Read More The Misappropriation of Anti-Racist Punk Classics

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