Trojan skinheads (also known as traditional
skinheads or trads) are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the middle 1960s, when
ska,
rocksteady,
reggae, and soul
music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on mod-influenced clothing styles. Named after the record label
Trojan Records, these
skinheads identify with the subculture's Jamaican
rude boy and British
working class roots.
Because of their appreciation of
music played by black people, they tend to be non-
racist.
Trojan skinheads usually dress in a typical 1960s skinhead style, which includes items such as button-down Ben Sherman shirts, Fred Perry polo shirts, braces,
… Read more fitted suits, cardigans, tank tops, Harrington jackets and Crombie-style overcoats. Hair is generally between a 2 and 4 grade clip-guard (short, but not bald), in contrast to the shorter-haired
punk-influenced Oi! skins of the 1980s.
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (
SHARP) are
anti-racist skinheads who oppose white power boneheads, neo-
fascists, and other political
racists, particularly if they identify themselves as
skinheads.
SHARPs aim to reclaim the multicultural identity of the original
skinheads, hijacked by
racists. Beyond the common opposition to
racism,
SHARP professes no political
ideology or affiliation, stressing the importance of the Jamaican influence in the original late-1960s skinhead movement. The
SHARPs and the Red and Anarchist
Skinheads (RASH) value
direct action and self-defense against neo-
Nazis. The movement has its origins in the multi-ethnic roots of the skinhead cultural identity.
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Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice was founded in 1986 in New York City. It emerged as a response by suburban
adolescents to the bigotry of the growing White Power Movement. Traditional
skinheads (Trads) were formed as a way to show that the skinhead subculture was not based on
racism and political extremism. In 1989, Roddy Moreno of the Oi! band
The Oppressed designed a new
SHARP logo based on the
Trojan Records' logo and started promoting
SHARP ideals to British
skinheads.
SHARP then spread throughout
Europe and in other continents.
Anti-fascist and
anti-racist, the
SHARP's refer to extreme right-wing
skinheads as ?boneheads?, a pejorative term. In return, boneheads call them ?reds? (a term relating to a supposed or actual affiliation to the political left) or ?
redskins?. Neo-
nazis and white power
skinheads hate the
SHARP movement. But many people may
confuse SHARP members with
racists since their appearance is superficially similar: shaved heads, denim, lace-up boots, button-down shirts, and braces. But
SHARPs listen to culturally influenced
music such as
reggae,
ska,
punk,
hardcore, and Oi!. An outgrowth of
SHARP is the Red and Anarchist
Skinheads (RASH), formed in the
United States in 1993 by
redskins and anarcho-
skinheads.
Hooliganism includes any form of confrontation between opposing
football fans which can occur in a variety of ways before, during, or after the match either at the stadium or elsewhere.
Football hooliganism normally involves
conflict between gangs, in English known as
football firms, formed to intimidate and attack supporters of other teams. Participants often select locations away from stadiums to avoid arrest by the police, but
conflict can also erupt spontaneously inside the stadium or in the surrounding streets. This movement was born in the
working class of the '60s. It's simply workers who went to
football matches and
fight the enemy supporters to defend their
football club. At
… Read more first, the movement was not politicized, it justs lauded physical force and aggressivity. But then, the movement became political by joining the skinhead movement, which came to
football stadiums in order to recruit young workers to join the subculture. Riots, another component of
hooliganism, develop more frequently as
hooligans travel in firms, leading
hooligans to encounter one another more easily. As stadium policing increased, firms met in the streets or other public locations to dodge law enforcement, which enabled riots. The slogan ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) is very popular among the
hooligan movement.
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