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Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent

by AK Thompson
(AK Press,
2010;
$19.95)

Reading AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot kept bringing to mind one particular memory from the Summit of the Americas protests in Quebec City a decade ago.

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