{"product_id":"it-starts-with-anger-isbn-9780593701386","title":"It Starts with Anger","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist, comes the untold origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mixed-race teenager’s search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1991, fifteen-year-old James Spooner arrives in New York’s West Village, hopeful that he’s finally escaped the extremist racism of his Southern California desert town. Still, a question looms large over his cross-country move: What will New York City make of this tartan plaid-and-leather-clad, mixed race, Black kid with a mohawk? Will he find his people? Thus begins Spooner’s insider’s account of the nineties downtown New York punk and early aughts pre-Giuliani nightlife scenes. In the city’s legendary rock clubs, squat basements, and DIY art spaces, he finds his way to creating zines, starting a record label, and promoting parties, while falling further in love with punk rock’s distorted guitars and politically progressive lyrics. Happy to have left a world of Nazi skins behind he must still navigate the casual racism and bigotry of a seemingly all-white echo chamber; a world stubbornly resistant to his Black\/punk identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntent on carving a space for young, Black, politically radical punk rockers like himself, Spooner undertakes a whirlwind tour of the country, collecting the stories that will become his acclaimed documentary, \u003ci\u003eAfro-Punk\u003c\/i\u003e, and eventually lead to the wildly successful music festival of the same name\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eBut what begins as a way to chronicle the joys and heartaches of being Black and punk rock soon spirals into a multimillion-dollar corporate endeavor. Spooner is forced to ask himself: In setting out to galvanize an underground movement, has he in fact given rise to the least punk rock thing of all—a brand?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with a vibrant mix of comics, spot art, and punk ephemera throughout, \u003ci\u003eIt Starts with Anger \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a coming-of-age story about found family, a compelling capitalist cautionary tale, and a raucous celebration of the indelible, rebellious spirit of Black punks.\u003cb\u003eJames Spooner \u003c\/b\u003eis an accomplished tattoo artist, illustrator, and filmmaker. Director of the seminal documentary \u003ci\u003eAfro-Punk \u003c\/i\u003eand co-founder of the AFROPUNK Festival, he is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel \u003ci\u003eThe High Desert, \u003c\/i\u003eco-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eBlack Punk Now,\u003c\/i\u003e and an ongoing guest curator for museums and libraries across the country.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233277260005,"sku":"NP9780593701386","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593701386.jpg?v=1767730241","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/it-starts-with-anger-isbn-9780593701386","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}