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Want to read this in PDF form? Click here. Racist skinheads are among the most dangerous radical-right threats facing law enforcement today. Skinhead products of a frequently violent and criminal subculture, these men and women, typically imbued with neo-Nazi beliefs about Jews, blacks, LGBT people and others, are also Skinhead difficult to track. For law Skinhead, this poses a particular problem in responding Skinhead crimes and conspiracies crossing multiple jurisdictions. As these extremists extend their reach across the country, it is vital that law enforcement officers who deal with them become familiar with the activities of skinheads nationwide. Skinhead follows is an examination of the history and nature of the skinhead movement, prepared with the needs of law enforcement officers in mind, a glossary of common skinhead terms, a timeline, and a gallery of insignias and tattoos commonly used by racist skinheads. The racist skinhead movement in the United States has entered its fourth decade. The scowling skinhead has joined the hooded Skinhead as an Skinhead recognizable icon of hate. Unlike the Klan, racist skinhead culture is not native to the United States. And unlike the Klan, it is Skinhead truly global phenomenon, with skinhead gangs haunting major cities and towns in just about every white-majority country on earth. From Austria to Australia and Argentina to America, working-class Skinhead can be found dressed Skinhead some local variation on the skinhead theme, espousing a crude worldview that is viciously anti-foreigner, anti-black, anti-gay, and anti-Semitic. The growth of the racist skinhead movement has Skinhead the rise in non-white immigration in the West. As the skin hues of Europe and North America have darkened with steady post-World War II immigration Skinhead Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, a nativist backlash has appeared in both mainstream and extremist Skinhead. The skinhead movement is the most violent and ideologically crude form of this backlash. Depending on Skinhead country, racist skinheads may have shadowy ties to radical parties Skinhead in electoral politics. Skinhead groups in the U. The Skinhead skinheads emerged in the late s as just one of the many distinct youth cultures that flowered in postwar Britain. The skinhead style first emerged as part of a non-racist and multiracial scene. White skinheads took on a persona that reflected admiration for and kinship with a new generation Skinhead working-class West Indian immigrants in the United Kingdom. Like the Jamaican immigrants of the time, the first skinheads were clean-cut, neat, and sharp-looking compared to the shaggier youth styles of the period. White Skinhead eventually lost their affinity for Jamaica as Rastafarian fashions became ascendant, with their overtones of black pride and pan- Africanism. While known for their youthful aggression, petty criminality, and soccer stadium violence, this activity was seen as born out of economic hardship and a general spirit of bully-boy rebellion — not blind race hatred. But a split between racist and nonracist skinheads was apparent and began deepening soon after the style was born. More than 50 such attacks were reported within a span of weeks intriggering street protests Skinhead British South Asians. A definitive break between racist and non-racist skins had occurred. They experienced a revival inwhen a new generation of skinheads started earning a fresh Skinhead for violence through attacks on Skinhead, LGBT people, and immigrants. Fueling these attacks and cementing the new racist skinhead identity was increasing association with two neofascist political parties, the National Front and the British Movement. The latter, founded by longtime neo-Nazi Colin Jordan indid the Skinhead to stamp a swastika on the racist sector of the skinhead movement. The British Movement ran candidates in the U. InSkinhead British Movement gained a charismatic leader in the form of Michael McLaughlin, who reached out to the racist skinheads and Skinhead to their sensibilities and skills by emphasizing violence and street-level hate. Between the arrival of Michael McLaughlin Skinhead and the election of Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister inthe first hardcore neo-Nazi Skinhead were born. The neo-Nazi skinhead phenomenon spread quickly to the United States. By the early s, skinhead activity was Skinhead in Texas Skinhead the Midwest, Skinhead other places. But the movement only started gaining national attention during the last third of the decade. It was then that skinhead gangs Skinhead the Dallas Hammerskins made a splash with violent racist attacks on immigrants and blacks. By the time Martell and the other five CASH skins were arrested for a gruesome Skinhead on a former member, CASH Skinhead been more or Skinhead beaten into submission by anti-racist skins. But Martell had merely Skinhead he was ahead of his Skinhead, and his defeat was local. Bywhen he was convicted of Skinhead invasion, aggravated battery, and robbery Skinhead sentenced to Skinhead years in prison, there were an estimated 3, A major force behind this national growth spurt was Tom Metzger, a Fallbrook, Calif. Together with his teenage son, John, Metzger sought to ground the dispersed Skinhead in ideology and Skinhead its wild and chaotic Skinhead energy into building smart, well-trained, and obedient street cells around the country. InTom Metzger organized the first major hate rock festival in the U. One of them, graduate student Mulugeta Seraw, died from his wounds. Skinhead responsible for these murders included members of the dreaded Skinhead Hammerskins, a confederation of skinheads founded in Dallas in Skinhead After spreading throughout the South, Hammerskin-affiliated gangs began appearing on the East and West coasts in the early s. The idea was to unite all of the regional Hammerskin groups into a national and even international force, with affiliated chapters in Europe. And for a while, the plan worked. At its peak, HSN directed nearly 30 chapters and ran a successful record label, publishing house, and website. The HSN symbol of two crossed hammers swept the skinhead scene. And an annual meeting and concert, Hammerfest, was Skinhead inallowing HSN members Skinhead around the world to meet and organize. Throughout this period Skinhead Hammerskin ascendancy, the racist skinhead movement Skinhead to grow and was responsible for hundreds of racially motivated crimes around the country. It was also during Skinhead period, inthat Denver police officer Bruce Vander Jagt became the first American police Skinhead killed in the line of duty by a racist skinhead. Hammerskin dominance failed to outlast the decade, however. The number of HSN chapters dropped off, with new regional groups rising up and loudly asserting their independence. Incredibly violent, full of swagger, and loathe to take orders from anyone, the Vinlanders were thought to Skinhead the future in a more decentralized skinhead scene. We have Skinhead to change this movement from within and have not succeeded. It is our opinion that a large number of the people involved in the greater movement are paid informants, social outcasts, and general losers in life. But the fourth decade of skinheads in America finds skinhead groups growing. The number of skinhead groups has increased dramatically in recent years, totaling by These new groups are defined Skinhead a violent gangster ethos that is only partly informed by racist and neo-Nazi ideology. Along with exposure to extremist political Skinhead and hate literature, music has always been a key element in the growth of the racist skinhead subculture. This Skinhead appropriate, as the original Skinhead scene was based around clubs playing ska and reggae. Groups such as Skrewdriver, Skullhead, and Skinhead Remorse forged a common skinhead culture in sweaty, beer-soaked, makeshift concert halls, with lyrics professing Skinhead among whites and violent, uncompromising antagonism to outsiders of all kinds. A subgenre of punk that often veered toward racism was known as Oi! The importance of music in Skinhead the worldwide skinhead movement cannot be overstated. William Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi National Alliance Skinhead his death in Skinhead, understood well the potential impact Skinhead haterock. Putting this insight into practice, Pierce purchased the ailing hate-rock label and distributor Resistance Records in and built the company into a major force in the world skinhead movement. Resistance Records had been originally founded in by George Burdi, a young Canadian skinhead who also started the band RAHOWA an acronym for Racial Holy Warwhich was one of the most popular and influential hate-rock bands of the period. Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress has described Burdi as one of the most effective recruiters for the movement in history. Burdi has since renounced hate and embraced Eastern mysticism. Skinhead first label to seriously challenge the Skinhead of Resistance Records was Minnesota-based Panzerfaust, named after a Nazi-era German anti-tank weapon. Before imploding amid a Skinhead involving the non-Aryan heritage of its founder, Anthony Pierpont, Panzerfaust was best known for a failed Skinhead to distributeSkinhead sampler CDs in schoolyards across the nation. The impact of Skinhead. Since the production, performance, and distribution of such music is illegal in many countries in Western Europe, the U. New media platforms — including social networking sites Skinhead MySpace and Twitter and video file-sharing sites like YouTube — are being used by racist skinhead groups to recruit and expose others to their views. The connections between racist skinheads in the U. With the rise of the Internet, groups Skinhead across the globe have been able to communicate and link up as never before, transforming the skinhead movement from an exclusively neighborhood-based phenomenon into a global culture with common points of reference and even annual events. The country with the worst skinhead problem today is Russia, where it is estimated there are tens of thousands of active neo-Nazi skinheads, including thousands in the capital alone. In recent years, immigrants, students and even senior embassy staff from Asian and African nations have been the victims of assaults and murders on the streets of Moscow. As in Western European countries, Russian skinhead violence often dovetails with soccer hooliganism. Some of these skinheads, the article notes, have been seen wearing the armbands of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party, suggesting Skinhead between street hate and organized political parties. Such links are suspected to be common in many Western European countries, where radical parties participate in electoral politics in recent years with sobering success. Across Europe, radical parties are on the rise, exploiting fears over immigration. In several of these countries, associations have been traced between skinhead gangs and parties with Skinhead in regional and Skinhead bodies. Circa The original skinhead subculture explodes among urban, working-class youths in Britain, combining style elements drawn from white "Mods" and West Indian "Rudeboys. Early s British skinhead scene factionalizes. White power skinheads develop a Skinhead subculture based on the white nationalist music of "Rock Against Communism" bands like Skrewdriver, Skullhead, and No Remorse Skinhead opposed the "Rock Against Racism" concerts of anti-racist skins. Circa Racist skinheads begin to appear in U. Tom Metzger and son John organize the first hate rock festival, Aryan Fest, which is held in Oklahoma. Skinhead flying chair breaks the nose Skinhead television talk show host Geraldo Rivera during a brawl Skinhead skinhead gang leaders and African-American activists on the set of "The Geraldo Rivera Show. Members of the Confederate Hammerskins patrol Skinhead E. Lee Park in Dallas, beating any non-white they come across. The gang is ultimately linked to 40 crimes, including the vandalism of a Dallas Skinhead. Police foil a plot by armed Hammerskins to destroy Jewish businesses on Nov. The next week, a dead pig bearing Vander Jagt's name is Skinhead outside a Denver police substation, and Denver skinheads Nathan Thill and Jeremiah Barnum murder a West African immigrant they encounter at a bus stop. Thill later tells a reporter that he killed Oumar Dia because he was "wearing the enemy's uniform" — his black skin. Skinhead Nation reorganizes and throws its first Hammerfest, the group's signature hate rock festival, in rural Bremen, Ga. More than skinheads from across the country attend. Skinhead attendance drops to as HSN's elitist posturing and relentless attempts to dictate the rules of skinhead culture in the U. Racist Skinheads: Understanding the Threat | Southern Poverty Law Center

A skinhead is a member of a subculture which originated among working class youths in LondonEnglandin the s and soon spread to Skinhead parts of the United KingdomSkinhead a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in the s. Motivated by social alienation and working class solidarityskinheads often shortened to "skins" are defined by their close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing such as Dr. Martens and steel toe work boots, Skinheadhigh rise and varying length Skinhead jeans Skinhead, and button-down collar shirts, usually slim fitting in check or plain. The movement reached a peak during the s, experienced Skinhead revival in the s, and, since then, has endured in multiple contexts worldwide. The rise to prominence of skinheads came in two waves, with the first wave taking place in the late s and the second wave originating in Skinhead mid s to early s. The Skinhead skinheads were working class youths motivated by an Skinhead of alternative values and working class pride, rejecting both the austerity and conservatism of the s-early s and the more middle class or bourgeois hippie movement and peace and Skinhead ethos of the mid to late s. Skinheads were instead drawn towards more working class outsider Skinheadincorporating elements Skinhead early working class mod fashion and Jamaican music and fashion, especially from Jamaican rude boys. Members of the second generation in the s were often ex-punks or influenced by the punk subculture. Many Skinhead these second generation Skinhead and punk-influenced skinheads, though fans of ska and reggae like the previous generation of skinheads, continued to listen to and create punk music and were heavily involved in the punk movement. Skinhead subculture has remained closely connected with Skinhead has overlapped with punk subculture ever since. Contemporary skinhead fashions range from clean-cut s mod- and rude boy-influenced styles to less-strict grungemetal and punk Skinhead styles. During the early s, political affiliations grew in significance Skinhead split the subculture, distancing the far right and far left strands, although many skins described themselves Skinhead apolitical. As a Skinhead class movement that was initially highly regionalised and excluded by society's moral norms, skinhead culture sometimes attracted hard-line far-right Skinhead, and was eventually influenced in the mids by violent fringe elements Skinhead extreme racism. Many skinheads remain influenced by dissident, left-wingsyndicalist or center-left politics or otherwise independent pro-working class politics that have been part of the movement since the beginning, particularly in the U. In the late s the post-war economic boom led to an increase Skinhead disposable income among many young people. Working class mods chose practical clothing styles that suited their lifestyle Skinhead employment circumstances: work Skinhead or army bootsstraight-leg jeans or Sta-Prest trousersbutton-down shirts Skinhead braces. When possible, Skinhead working class mods Skinhead their money on suits and other sharp outfits to wear at dancehalls, where they enjoyed soulskaand Skinhead music. Arounda schism developed between the peacock mods also known as smooth mods Skinhead, who Skinhead less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods also known as gang modsSkinhead or peanutswho were identified Skinhead their shorter hair and more working class image. Skinheads may also have cut their hair short in defiance Skinhead the more middle class hippie culture. In addition to retaining many mod influences, early skinheads were very interested in Jamaican rude boy styles and culture, especially the music: ska, rocksteady, and Skinhead reggae before the tempo slowed down and lyrics became Skinhead on topics like black nationalism and the Rastafari movement. Skinhead culture became so popular by that even Skinhead rock band Slade Skinhead adopted the Skinhead as a marketing strategy. By the early s, the skinhead subculture started to fade from popular culture, and some of the original skins dropped into new categories, such as the suedeheads defined by the ability to manipulate one's hair Skinhead a combsmoothies often with shoulder-length hairstylesand bootboys with mod-length hair; associated with gangs and football hooliganism. In the late s, the skinhead subculture was revived Skinhead a notable extent after the introduction of punk rock. Around this time, some skinheads became Skinhead with far right groups such as the National Front and Skinhead British Movement. There still Skinhead, however, skinheads Skinhead preferred the original mod-inspired styles. Bands and DJ's play Ska and Oi! The event is Skinhead apolitical. Eventually different interpretations of the skinhead subculture expanded beyond Britain and continental Europe. In the United States, certain segments of the hardcore punk scene embraced skinhead styles and developed their own version of the subculture. Bill Osgerby has argued that skinhead culture more broadly grows strength from specific economic circumstances. He has remarked to the BBC, "In the late 70s and early 80s, working class culture was disintegrating through unemployment and inner city decay and there was an attempt to recapture a sense of working class solidarity and identity in the face of a Skinhead of social change. By the s street fights regularly broke out in West Germany between skinheads and Skinhead of the anti-fascistleft wing youth movement called Antifa. On the other side of the Berlin WallSkinhead East Germanythe skinhead youth movement had developed two different styles: one was more focused on rebellious youth fashion styles while the other camp often dressed in regular clothes and focused more heavily on political activity. These groups were infiltrated by agents of the Stasi and did not last long in East Germany. After a group of skinheads attacked Skinhead punk concert Skinhead Zion's Church East Berlin inmany skinhead leaders fled to Skinhead Germany to Skinhead arrest. Skinhead first wave skinheads used a No. From the Skinhead s, male skinheads typically Skinhead their heads with a No. During that period, side partings were sometimes shaved into the Skinhead. Since the s, some skinheads have clipped their hair with no guard, Skinhead even shaved it with a razor. Some skinheads sport sideburns of various styles, usually neatly trimmed, but most skinheads Skinhead not Skinhead moustaches or beards. By the s, most female skins had mod-style haircuts. During the s skinhead revival, many female skinheads had feathercuts Chelsea in North America. A feathercut is short on the crown, with fringes at the front, back and sides. Skinheads wear long-sleeve or short-sleeve button-down shirts or polo shirts by brands such as Ben ShermanSkinhead PerryBrutusWarrior or Jaytex; Lonsdale or Everlast Skinhead or sweatshirts ; Grandfather shirts ; V-neck sweaters ; sleeveless sweaters Skinhead in the UK as a tank top ; cardigan sweaters or T-shirts plain or with text or designs related Skinhead the skinhead subculture. Traditional Skinhead sometimes wear suits, often Skinhead two-tone Skinhead fabric shiny mohair -like material that changes colour in different light and anglesSkinhead in a Skinhead of Wales or houndstooth check pattern. Many skinheads wear Sta-Prest flat-fronted slacks or other dress trousers Skinhead jeans normally Levi'sLee or Wrangler ; or combat trousers plain or camouflage. Jeans and slacks are worn deliberately short either hemmed, rolled or tucked to show off boots, or to show off socks when wearing loafers or brogues. Jeans are often blue, with a parallel leg design, hemmed or Skinhead clean and thin rolled cuffs turn-upsand are sometimes splattered with bleach to resemble camouflage trousers a style popular among Oi! Many traditionalist skinheads wear braces, in various colours, usually no more than 1" in width, clipped to the trouser waistband. In some areas, braces much wider Skinhead that may identify a skinhead as either unfashionable or as a white power skinhead. Traditionally, braces are worn up in an X shape at the back, but some Oi! Patterned braces — often black and white check, or vertical stripes — are sometimes worn by traditional skinheads. In a few cases, the colour of braces or flight jackets have been Skinhead to signify affiliations. The particular colours chosen have varied regionally, and have Skinhead totally different meanings in different areas and time periods. Only skinheads from the same area and time period are likely to interpret the colour significations accurately. The practice of using the colour clothing items to indicate affiliations has become less common, particularly among traditionalist skinheads, who are more likely to Skinhead their colours simply for fashion. Hats common among skinheads include: Trilby hats; pork Skinhead hats ; flat caps Scally caps or driver Skinheadwinter woollen hats without a bobble. Less common have been bowler hats mostly among suedeheads and those influenced by the film A Clockwork Orange. Traditionalist skinheads sometimes wear a silk Skinhead in the breast pocket of a Crombie-style overcoat or tonic suit jacket, in some cases fastened with an ornate stud. Some wear pocket flashes instead. Skinhead are pieces of silk in contrasting colours, mounted on a piece Skinhead cardboard and designed to look like an elaborately folded handkerchief. It was common to Skinhead the colours based on one's favourite football club. Some skinheads wear button Skinhead or sewn-on fabric patches with designs related to affiliations, interests or beliefs. Also popular are woollen or printed rayon scarves in football club colours, worn knotted at the neck, wrist, or hanging from a belt loop at the waist. Silk or faux-silk Skinhead especially Tootal brand with paisley patterns Skinhead also sometimes worn. Some suedeheads carried closed umbrellas Skinhead sharpened tips, or a handle with a pull-out blade. This led to the nickname brollie boys. Some skingirls wear fishnet stockings and mini-skirts, a style introduced Skinhead the punk-influenced skinhead revival. Most skinheads wear boots ; Skinhead the s army surplus or generic workboots, later Dr. Martens boots and shoes. In s Britain, steel-toe boots worn by skinheads and hooligans were called bovver boots ; whence skinheads have themselves sometimes been called bovver boys. Skinheads have also been known to wear broguesloafers or Dr. Martens or similarly styled low shoes. In recent years, other brands of boots, such as SolovairTredair Grinders, and gripfast have become popular among skinheads, partly because most Dr. Martens are no longer made in England. Football -style athletic shoesby brands such as Adidas or Golahave become popular with many skinheads. Female or child skinheads generally wear the same footwear as Skinhead, with the addition of monkey boots. The traditional brand for monkey boots was Grafters, but nowadays they are also made by Dr. Martens and Solovair. In the early days of the skinhead subculture, some skinheads chose boot lace colours based on the Skinhead team they supported. Later, some skinheads particularly highly political Skinhead began to use lace colour to indicate beliefs or affiliations. This practice has become less common, particularly among traditionalist skinheads, Skinhead are more likely to choose their colours simply for fashion purposes. Suedeheads sometimes wore coloured socks. The most popular music style for lates skinheads was 2 Skinheada fusion of ska, rocksteady, reggae, pop and punk rock. In the Skinhead s, after the Skinhead wave of punk rock, many skinheads embraced Oi! Notable Oi! American Oi! The Oi! Many later Oi! Among some skinheads, heavy metal is popular. Bands such as the Canadian act Blasphemy Skinhead, whose guitarist is black, has been known to popularise and merchandise the phrase "black metal skinheads". Skinhead didn't hang out with white Skinhead skinheads, but there were some Oi skinheads who wanted to hang out with us. There was a record label called "Satanic Skinhead Skinhead that was known to specialize in neo-Nazi black metal and death metal bands. Although many white power skinheads listened to Oi! White power music that draws inspiration from hardcore punk is sometimes called hatecore. The early skinheads Skinhead not necessarily part of any political movement, but as the s progressed, the skinheads became more politically active and acts of racially-motivated skinhead violence began to occur in the United Kingdom. As a Skinhead of this change within the skinheads, far right groups such as the National Front and the British Movement saw a rise in the number of white power skinheads among their ranks. During the late s and early s, Skinhead, many skinheads and suedeheads in the United Skinhead rejected both the far left and the far right. This anti-extremist attitude was musically typified by Oi! How The Skinhead Movement Went From Inclusive To Racist

It was only a matter of time before radical right-wing politics buried that mission in favor of open Skinhead and ultimately Neo-Nazism, however. In The Story of SkinheadDon Letts — one of the original Skinhead skinheads — traces this story, and offers a sobering, uneasy tale of how easily racism can creep into working class politics. The first wave of skinheads stood for one thing: embracing their blue collar status. Changing Skinhead patterns also shaped the burgeoning culture. Around the time, Skinhead immigrants began to enter Skinhead U. This physical proximity offered Skinhead chance for sustained cultural Skinhead, and soon enough English kids latched on to Jamaican reggae and ska records. In a Skinhead to the mod and rocker subcultures Skinhead preceded them, skinheads donned slick coats and loafers, buzzing their hair in a quest to become cool in their own right — and to Skinhead themselves from the hippie movement. Bythe first generation of skinheads had begun to frighten their peers. Indeed, Skinhead became the de facto bible for skinheads outside London, where football fan Skinhead were Skinhead to take the subculture — Skinhead its constitutive aesthetics — up. And thus, the party began to infiltrate the group. National Front would sell propagandistic magazines at soccer matches, where they knew they would reach a massive audience. In its efforts to recruit more party members, the party also took advantage of rural conditions in which many skinheads found themselves. One former skinhead featured in the The Story of Skinhead recalled that Skinhead National Front opened up the sole nightclub within dozens of miles of one rural community — and only allowed members to come inside. Those who wanted to dance Skinhead to Skinhead to propaganda. Over time, right-wing efforts to co-opt skinhead culture began to rot the latter from within. For example, Sham 69, Skinhead of the most successful punk bands in the s and one with an unusually large skinhead following, stopped performing altogether after National Front-supporting white power skinheads rioted at a concert. If you go right back and start your story right back at the beginning, and get yourself a good foundation of your knowledge of skinhead culture Skinhead where it was born from…You Skinhead what it was about. You can see where it was distorted. The end of the s also saw the last flare of multicultural acceptance with Skinhead Tone music, Skinhead blended the s-style ska with punk rock. And Skinhead that genre petered out, Oi! Right-wing nationalists co-opted this genre from nearly the very beginning. Strength Thru Oi! When Skinhead man was released from prison four years later, he would go on to provide security for a band called Skrewdriver. While it started off as a non-political Oi! Music and violence became enmeshed, perhaps most saliently seen in the Southall riot. On Skinhead day it transpired, two busloads of skinheads headed to a Skinhead located in Southall, a London suburb which at the time was home to a large Indian and Pakistani population. Those skinheads found an Asian woman on the way to the Skinhead and kicked her head in, smashing Skinhead and vandalizing businesses as they proceeded. It was not nice at all. Outraged, Indians and Pakistanis followed Skinhead skinheads to the pub where the concert took place. An all-out, racially-charged brawl took place soon after. Instead of arresting them, the police just pushed them back. As for the working-class ethos that propelled the subculture in the first place? Skinhead learning about the evolution of skinheads, read up on Skinhead Lincoln Rockwellthe founder of the American Nazi Party. Then, discover the appalling past and present of Holocaust deniers. By All That's Interesting. Before linking with Neo-Nazism, skinhead culture started among young English and Jamaican working-class communities in s London. Share Tweet Email. Report a bad ad experience. All That's Interesting. Previous Post. You might also like.