An edition of Skinheads shaved for battle (1993)

Skinheads shaved for battle

a cultural history of American skinheads

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An edition of Skinheads shaved for battle (1993)

Skinheads shaved for battle

a cultural history of American skinheads

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Skinheads Shaved for Battle investigates the world of young American men and women - sometimes boys and girls - who helped form the most significant and violent new hate group of the 1980s.

Bound together far more by common beliefs and attitudes than by structural links, racist skinheads (non-racist skinheads also exist) developed during the decade from a greatly splintered and marginal presence on the punk scene to become a highly explosive, dominating force praised and courted by the country's older, more established right wing extremist organizations.

Now an international phenomenon, skinheads were first sighted in England as another in a series of youthful counter-cultural movements and viewed sometimes sympathetically for rejecting the dead end life held out to young working class people in a shoddy welfare state. The skinhead scene ballooned in the late 1960s and then withered. In the mid 1970s it re-formed, growing in the shadow of the punk scene, only this time with a more clearly political agenda directed against minorities and homosexuals.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has termed skinheads "a unique and frightening phenomenon...initiated by teenagers," unconfined "to any single geographic region," a group "whose gangs sprang up spontaneously." The Anti-Defamation League demonstrated in publication after publication why neo-Nazi skinheads were not simply a "menacing presence" in America but one of the greatest threats to civil rights in the nation.

Skinheads Shaved for Battle investigates the English roots of skinhead style; the American variant's development within larger youth group scenes; the ideas and activities of racist skinheads; their modes of organization; the role of music in their formation; their presentation in the media; and the damage they have done in American society. Buttressing his standard library research with study in Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League archives and first-hand interviews, Jack B.

Moore emphasizes throughout the American identity of skinheadism.

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English
Pages
200

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1993, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200).

Published in
Bowling Green, OH

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Library of Congress
HV6439.U5 M657 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
200 p. :
Number of pages
200

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Open Library
OL1439503M
Internet Archive
skinheadsshavedf0000moor
ISBN 10
0879725826, 0879725834
LCCN
93070440
OCLC/WorldCat
29558450
Library Thing
2434256
Goodreads
3429817
974645

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