Skinheads Shaved For Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads - Softcover

Moore, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879725834 ISBN 13: 9780879725839

Publisher: Popular Press 3, 1993

Synopsis

This book describes who American skinheads are, how they have developed within larger youth group scenes, their ideas and activities, the role of music in their formation and development, how they have been perceived by the media in America, and what damage they have done in American society. Jack B. Moore focuses on the cultural history of this group in America during the 1980s and suggests that while they were originally a minor distraction on the punk scene, they have grown into a dangerous and far more politically engaged source of hate thought and crime.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack B. Moore teaches American Literature, American Studies, and Humanities at the University of South Florida, specializing in American and African cultural studies, and racism. He is also a member of the Institute on Black Life.

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From dust jacket: 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Popular Press 3
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0879725834
• ISBN 13: 9780879725839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208