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Chambers, Eddie. Roots and Culture : Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/goldsmiths/detail.action?docID=4791304. Fryer, Peter. Staying power, the history of black people in Britain. Pluto Press, 1984 Moliterno, Alessandro G. “What Riot? Punk Rock Politics, Fascism, and Rock Against Racism.” Last modified 2012, http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/612/2/what-riot-punk-rock-politics-fascism-and-rock-against-racism Panayi,Continue reading “BIBLIOGRAPHY”

‘The Caribbean has long since been a region with a surfeit of labour, and consequently a region from which labour has been exported.’ [1] Wind rush was the largest scale of migration after world war two. There were various push and pull factors that bought people to Britain as the newly independent colonies found themselvesContinue reading “WINDRUSH”

This post will explore the ‘The role of the state as an employer and as a provider of income, and the growth of structural unemployment’ [1] and how this contributed to the sound of punk. Actions throughout the course of thatchers government had an extremely negative effect within inner cities by the 1970s due toContinue reading “CAREER OPPORTUNITIES”

‘Punk was a refuge from racism. On the streets, young men like me were constantly getting pulled up by the cops. The far right were getting stronger throughout the 70s. But punk shows were bringing people together. The Clash were doing Rock Against Racism concerts. The Slits were doing gigs with Aswad. We were all cheering each otherContinue reading “THE URGE TO SUBVERT”

‘Punk could be a blind, nihilistic rebellion, distinctly apolitical in its stance. At the same time there were fears that it would become oriented with the right, with neo-fascism and racism, or conversely that it had distinctly left-leaning tendencies.’ [1] The punk and more notably the skinhead movement has received criticism over whether it was theContinue reading “OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS!”