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Student Resources

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Addei, Kofi, director. The Art Of Afropunk. YouTube, 22 Sept. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxGuKl-ySc. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

“AfroPunk: The New Counter Culture.” YouTube, CNN Business, 26 Aug. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWaUb5E8p1g. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

“Black Self-Expression Was Limitless at AfroPunk.” YouTube, Essence, 29 Aug. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bwBr3nA9QQ. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

“Breaking Barriers in the Punk Scene.” YouTube, Noisey, 18 Dec. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6uABQXdpRY. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

Brown, Jayna, and Tavia Nyong'o. “Queer as Punk: A Guide to LGBTQIA+ Punk.” NPR, 15 June 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/876087623/queer-as-punk-a-guide-to-lgbtqia-punk. 

 

Burton, Taylor. “Subcultures and Sociology: Afro-Punk.” Afro-Punk - Subcultures and Sociology, Grinnell College, https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultures-and-scenes/afro-punk/. 

 

Darville, Jordan. “AfroPunk Editor Resigns, Cites ‘Performative Activism," Employee Mistreatment.” The Fader, 5 Sept. 2018, https://www.thefader.com/2018/09/05/afropunk-editor-resigns-cites-performative-activism-employee-mistreatment-open-letter. 

 

Davis, Vaginal. “Anna-Ee.” Pedro, Muriel, & Esther, Amoeba Records, 1991. 

 

Death. “Rock-n-Roll Victim.” Drag City Records, 1976. 

 

Giorgis, Hannah. “Gentrifying Afropunk.” The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2015, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/gentrifying-afropunk. 

 

Griffin, Tamerra. “Relationship Between AfroPunk And The Trans Justice Movement Is Imperfect, But Necessary.” Buzzfeed News, Buzzfeed, 24 Aug. 2015, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tamerragriffin/relationship-between-afropunk-and-the-trans-justice-movement. 

 

Johnson, Christopher. “'Afro-Punk': A Black Punk Documentary.” NPR, 26 Mar. 2004. 

 

Jordan-Zachery, Julia, and Duchess Harris. Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition. University of Arizona Press, 2019. 

 

Kevin, E B. “The Launch of Afro-Punks NFT Collection.” Medium, DataDrivenInvestor, 19 Jan. 2022, https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-launch-of-afro-punks-nft-collection-ff999fbff31a. 

 

Kotrady, Patricia. “Consuming Authenticity: Deconstructing ‘Do-It- Yourself ’ Punk Rock Ethics in Philadelphia.” Dickinson College, Dickinson Scholar, 2016. 

 

Leigh, Nathan. “Queer Punk History: 1575 - Present.” AfroPunk, 22 June 2020, https://afropunk.com/2020/06/queer-punk-history-1575-present/. 

 

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“The Most Innovating Style and Soul Energy on the Planet: AfroPunk Fest 2013.” YouTube, StyleLikeU, 13 Sept. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjMKsCgYnX4. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

Negra, Monkia. “Faced With Commercialization, the Black Punk Community Turns to Its Past for a Guide to Keep Resisting.” Black Youth Project, 26 July 2019, http://blackyouthproject.com/faced-with-commercialization-the-black-punk-community-turns-to-its-past-for-a-guide-to-keep-resisting/. 

 

Niedzielski, Keith, director. Pure Hell. Youtube, 3 Dec. 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdxMwNNRA2o. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

Nola, Lisa. “Origins of AfroPunk.” Black-Owned Brooklyn, 27 Aug. 2020, https://www.blackownedbrooklyn.com/stories/afropunk. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

“Politicians In My Eyes.” Death, 1976. 

 

“Poly Styrene: DIY Punk Pioneer.” YouTube, A Grrrl's Two Sound Ceents, 4 Dec. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rFzSxR6UHE. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

Saeed, Sana, director. The Very Black History Of Punk Music. YouTube, AJ+, 25 Feb. 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIWDZ1xxdM. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

Spooner, James, director. AfroPunk: The Rock and Roll Nigger Experience. YouTube, AfroPunk, 20 Mar. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fanQHFAxXH0. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

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Vincent, Melissa. “How The DIY Scene Is Different When You’Re Black.” The Fader, 30 June 2016, https://www.thefader.com/2016/06/30/how-the-diy-scene-is-different-when-youre-black. 

 

“What I Learned at Afropunk.” YouTube, Button Poetry, 26 Aug. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SNp0jObmac. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. 

 

X-Ray Spex. “Art-I-Ficial.” London, 1978. 

 

Yzola, Alana. “The Art Scene at Brooklyn's AFROPUNK Festival Was Hiding in Plain Sight.” Insider, 30 Aug. 2016, https://www.insider.com/afropunks-art-scene-was-hiding-in-plain-sight-2016-8. 

“AfroPunk: the Other Black Experience.” AfroPunk, 8 Mar. 2022, https://afropunk.com/. 

 

Anderson, Jewel. “Afropunk: The Alternative Black Experience.” Smithsonian: Folklife, 6 Aug. 2008. 

 

Chutel, Lynsey. “AfroPunk Johannesburg Puts the City on the Map of Global Black Culture.” Quartz Africa, Quartz Media, 3 Jan. 2018, https://qz.com/africa/1169363/afropunk-johannesburg-puts-the-city-on-the-map-of-global-black-culture/. 

 

Elian, Melissa. “Afropunk Brings The 'Black Lives Matter' Ethos Abroad.” The Picture Show, NPR, 2 Sept. 2018, https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2018/09/02/643074020/afropunk-brings-the-black-lives-matter-ethos-abroad. 

 

Maloney, Devon. “Afropunk Started with a Documentary. Ten Years, Two Websites, and Eight Festivals Later...” The Village Voice, 21 Aug. 2013, https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/08/21/afropunk-started-with-a-documentary-ten-years-two-websites-and-eight-festivals-later/. 

 

McClure, Diana. “AfroPunk ABCs.” International Review of African American Art, IRAAA+, http://iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu/page/Afropunk-ABCs. 

 

Nekesa, Naomi. “What Is AfroPunk?” British Council Music, 30 June 2016, https://music.britishcouncil.org/news-and-features/2016-07-01/blog-what-is-afropunk. 

 

Pritchard, Eric D. “Grace Jones, Afro Punk, and Other Fierce Provocations: An Introduction to ‘Sartorial Politics, Intersectionality, and Queer Worldmaking.’” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 4, no. 3, 2017, pp. 1–11., https://doi.org/71.62.232.124. 

 

Ramírez-Sánchez, Rubén. “Marginalization from Within: Expanding Co-Cultural Theory Through the Experience of the AfroPunk.” Howard Journal of Communications, vol. 19, no. 2, 6 May 2008, pp. 89–104., https://doi.org/10.1080/10646170801990896. 

 

Stinson, Elizabeth. “Means of Detection: A Critical Archiving of Black Feminism and Punk Performance.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 22, no. 2-3, 2012, pp. 275–311., https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2012.720827. 

 

Trujilo, Marcos G. “Resist, Reconstruct, Repeat: Afro-Punk's Response to Punk Rock's Racism and Sexism.” Northern Arizona University, ProQuest Dissertations, 2013. 

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