Black Bloc, White Riot: Antiglobalization and the Genealogy of Dissent

Are you taking over, or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?

White riot—I wanna riot.
White riot—a riot of my own.

—The Clash, "White Riot"

Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalization generation is ready to reflect on a decade of organizing that changed the face of mass action around the globe.

Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits th...