TY  - BOOK
TI  - The high desert: a memoir 
SN  - 9780358659112
U1  - 741.5973 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Spooner, James
KW  - Cartoonists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Music and race
KW  - Punk rock music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Punk culture
KW  - Racism
KW  - Nineteen nineties
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Autobiographical comics
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Coming-of-age comics
KW  - Nonfiction comics
KW  - Comics (Graphic works)
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - "Black. Punk. Nowhere."--Cover
N2  - "A formative coming-of-age graphic memoir by the creator of Afro-punk: a young man's immersive reckoning with identity, racism, clumsy teen love and belonging in an isolated California desert, and a search for salvation and community through punk. Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining -- new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a young Black punk who introduces him to the school outsiders--skaters, unhappy young rebels, caught up in the punk groundswell sweeping the country. A haircut, a few Sex Pistols, Misfits and Black Flag records later: suddenly, James has friends, romantic prospects, and knows the difference between a bass and a guitar. But this desolate landscape hides brutal, building undercurrents: a classmate overdoses, a friend must prove himself to his white supremacist brother and the local Aryan brotherhood through a show of violence. Everything and everyone are set to collide at one of the year's biggest shows in town... Weaving in the Black roots of punk rock and a vivid interlude in the thriving eighties DIY scene in New York's East Village, this is the memoir of a budding punk, artist, and activist." --Encore
ER  -