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by Alex Burns (alex@disinfo.com) - March 03, 2001

The original Skinhead subculture emerged in working class Britain during the 1960s as a 'memetic drift' from the Mod subculture. Integrating vibrant aspects of Jamaican Ska and Reggae music, early Skinheads were different from the racialist stereotypes that dominate contemporary mainstream media coverage.

Displaced by the sociopolitical trauma of the late 1960s, including Hippies, Skinheads again came to prominence during the turbulent 1970s in Britain. During a time of high unemployment and growing economic stratification, many young people found a positive personal identity and surrogate tribe in the thriving subculture. Skinheads adopted a myriad of forms, from Trads to Red & Anarchist Skins (RASH). They spawned new music genres, including Street-Punk, Two-Tone and Oi!

However, groups like National Action became notorious for violent street protests, and fear of Neo-Nazi Boneheads prompted strongly negative reactions from the general public. Racialist and White Power groups spread to the United States.

As a reaction to the racialist stereotype and divisive opposition politics, a grass-roots movement called Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) emerged during the late 1980s. SHARP argued that the racialists had fed members false history and used the subculture's aesthetics and personal identity for its own nefarious purposes.

In a splintering post-Cold War environment where the search for cultural identity is simultaneously more difficult and more dangerous than ever, Skinhead subculture uniquely probes the different forms and reasons why racialism and historical revisionism exist within society. They provide a haven for disenfranchised working class voices.

Ignore their pleas at your own peril.

Rahowa: Racial Loyalty
Rahowa is an acronym for Racial Holy War, the creed of the World Church of the Creator and the name of a notorious White Power band. One of the most important Skinhead sites on the Internet.

Skinheads.net
Members pages, music reviews, MP3 files, hatemail and more. Chris Nutter's site conveys much about the status of the Skinhead subculture.

Resistance Records Home Page
Home page of Oi record label.

Skinheads UK
British Skinhead/White Power site.

British Movement
One of several Skinhead/Neo Nazi political groups in the UK.

Shoah
A vast collection of links and commentaries on the various forms of Skinhead subculture, Holocaust denial pages, anti-racist pages and more. Is skinhead culture now multidimensional?

Real Skinheads Aren't Racist
Get the 'skinny' on racism in the skinhead scene.

Queer Skinhead Brotherhood
Obviously not a Bonehead site, but this makes as much sense as the KKK.

Skinheads UK
Even Skinheads are organised enough to have online social networks.

Bird & Advil's Skin Head page
Let the skinheads speak for themselves.

Welcome Skinheads!
This German Skinheads page is part of the Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) movement - a backlash against National Action and Rahowa racialist stereotypes. Features Oi! and Ska material.

Socialist Skinheads
Proof that the Internet has all kinds of skinhead mutations.

Skinheads Against Racism
A brief page by young Skinheads fighting against the subculture's negative stereotypes.

Skinheads
Clever satire by cartoonist Stephen Read.

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