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White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

politicalmediareview — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:41 +0000

Thursday, September 22, 2011, I headed out by bike to ride up to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where my buddy Ron and I planned to attend the book party for Stephen Duncombe and Max Tremblay's new work, White Riot, a collection of first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history on issues of racial identity.

The Meaning of Freedom

politicalmediareview — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:10:00 +0000

Angela Davis has written and lectured extensively on a variety of historical, social, political, and economic issues.

Wombanifesto

politicalmediareview — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:12:16 +0000

Invoking Elegua to open the musical floodgates, d’bi young wastes no time in unleashing bold soul sonic vibrations that ripple through the body and mind, swiftly but surely navigating the resulting rapids to carry us along on the raging (as in outrageous and outraged) river of her creativity.

Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876

politicalmediareview — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:18:54 +0000

If white supremacy was an illness afflicting America, Black disenfranchisement would be that cough that never goes away. Resonant, persistent, rattling to the bones and always that with which the sufferer writes off with excuses of other causes.

Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

politicalmediareview — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:54:51 +0000

Tim Wise opens his compelling and formidable book with words from Barack Obama’s famous 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention: “There’s not a black America, and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border

politicalmediareview — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:01:01 +0000

Among the villains in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2012 Fiscal Year budget are coyotes, the “smugglers” migrants often hire to help them enter the United States without authorization.

Mad Bomber Melville

politicalmediareview — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:32:58 +0000

With the publication of Mad Bomber Melville, Leslie James Pickering has done a great service for those who—as he puts it—“can take inspiration from someone who was far from perfect but never gave up the struggle” (133). Pickering’s biography of Sam Melville does not seek to idolize its subject but is an honest effort to preserve an important history which holds challenging lessons for present day readers.