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Article: Beyond white pride: identity, meaning and contradiction in the Canadian skinhead subculture.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
- Author:
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Unlike other flamboyant post-war youth subcultures - teddy boys, mods and rockers, new wave, rap or grunge - for a variety of people and generations throughout the world the label "skinhead" conjures an immediate, if often stereotypical, sense of what the group represents. Much of what is known of the skinhead movement both in Canada and abroad stems from the aggressive behaviour of the first generation of British skinheads in the late 1960s and the 1970s, or from the more organized and xenophobic practices of the present generation of ultra-right skinhead gangs that are active across Europe. The current moral panic associated with skinheads largely derives from the fact ...