[Dan27155]

The Skinheads started in England in the mid-’60s. They were offshoots of the Mods, with a distinctly working-class spin. They shaved their heads because of lice and because floppy Beatles haircuts get pulled in fights. At first they were mostly football hooligans, but toward the late ’60s early ’70s they adopted many social causes, some leftist, some rightest, etc. These kids came into direct contact with black emigres from the West Indies. They were invited to their dance halls, where ska, reggae and rocksteady were played. The Skinheads fell in love with it, and it became their predominant music form, along with Oi! (a close relative of hardcore punk). But in the late ’70s early ’80s, the National Front (the British equivalent of the Nazi Party) started recruiting young people as well as a few rightist-leaning Skins, and they became a distinct racist Skinhead subdivision of the subculture. It took off from there. About half of all Skinheads are non- or anti-racist. There are traditional Skinheads (based on the originals from the ’60s), SHARPs (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice), RASH (Red & Anarchist SkinHeads), queer Skins (gay and lesbian), straight-edge Skinheads (some are racist, many are not), Hammerskins (racist), white power Skins, white pride Skins, Nazi Skins and a few others. A traditional Skin (a true original) is identified by a love for football (soccer), beer, ska/reggae/rocksteady/dancehall music, as well as Oi!, punk and hardcore, a disdain or resentment of racism (half the Skins in L.A. are Latino), and their working-class traditions and values.

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Name : Dan27155, Gender : M, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : L.A. area, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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