The Hands that Crafted the Bomb : The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist / Fernandez Josh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernandez, Josh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-fascist movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2024]

Summary:

Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for "soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities" after starting an antifascist club on campus. As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects on a life lived in protest of the status quo, swept up in chaos and rage, from his childhood in Boston dealing with a mentally ill father and a new family to growing up in Davis, California, in the basement shows of the early '90s when Nazi boneheads proliferated the music scene, looking for heads to crack. His crew's first attempts at an antifascist group fall short when a member dies in a knife fight. A born antiauthoritarian, filled with an untamable rage, Fernandez rails against the system and aggressively chooses the path of most resistance. This leads to long spates of living in his car, strung out on drugs, and robbing the whiteboys coming home from the clubs at night. Fernandez eventually realizes that his rage needs an outlet and finds relief for his existential dread in the form of running. And fighting Nazis. Fernandez cobbles together a life for himself as a writing professor, a facilitator of a self-defense collective, a boots-on-the-ground participant in Antifa work, and a proud father of two children he unapologetically raises to question authority. But his parents and academia seem to think Fernandez is failing miserably, putting his children and his students at risk, and they treat Fernandez like he's a time bomb, ready to explode at any moment. They may have a point.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

The Investigation, Part 1: How to Get Fired

The Investigation, Part 2: How to Talk to Assholes

The Investigation, Part 3: How to Explode

Present Day: Community Self-Defense

From Brookline to Davis: Cross-Country

Present Day: Some Happy Motherfuckers

The Investigation, Part 4: How to Talk to Colleagues

From Sacramento to Boston: The Greyhound

Present Day: Not the Poet, the Punk Rocker

Present Day: Biter

The Investigation, Part 6: How to Forget

The Investigation, Part 7: How to Move On

The Investigation, Part 8: How to Fight

The Investigation, Part 9: How to Lie

To Korea: You Drink Like Us

The Investigation, Part 10: How to Put a Baby to Sleep

Present Day: How Many Interviews Can I Fail?

The Investigation, Part 11: How to Make a Deal with the Devil

Present Day: My New Job

Present Day: A Rescue

The Investigation, Part 12: How to Pretend

Present Day: I Live in an Eternally Frenzied State

Present Day: Huge Liberal Faggot

Present Day: Going to Prison

Present Day: Smash the City to Bits

The Investigation, Part 13: How to Teach a Class

Present Day: Blacking Out

Present Day: We're All Ghosts Here

The Investigation, Part 13: How to Say "Fuck You"

Present Day: Hillbillies Need Hugs

Present Day: Trouble Again

Present Day: Sacramento County Jail

Present Day: Gang Unit

Present Day: Clothing and Food for Everyone

Present Day: My Stepdad Can't Take It Anymore

Present Day: There's a Brilliant Light after All This

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Josh, Fernandez The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

ISBN:

9798887440279

OCLC:

1409673568