White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race has something for everyone who's set his or her alienation to the accompaniment of screaming. I skipped straight to its excerpt of an 1983 Maximumrocknroll interview with Ian MacKaye, whose pre-Fugazi band Minor Threat had recently released the scene-shaking, name-says-it-all song "Guilty of Being White." And I was instantly reminded of someone who otherwise couldn...

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