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• n  a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism
• n  a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations

• An Afghan interpreter died after being beaten by a group of skinheads on 15 April, The Associated Press reported.
• The skinheads also target non-Slav minorities from the Caucasus, whom Russians disparagingly refer to as "blacks," and Jews.
• A group of skinheads in California had a dream, but it was decidedly different from the one imagined by Martin Luther King.

• bootboys
• skinhead

News & Articles

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• Several questioned after skinheads' brawl in France
  Since a skinheads-militant leftists brawl left a university student dead this week, the French government says it wants to ban extreme-right groups — a complex task complicated by the hydra-like nature of the hard-core right. Five people linked to extreme-right groups were still being questioned Friday in the student's death in Paris, according to the prosecutor's office. Eight had been ...
  June 8, 2013 - The Clarion-Ledger
• 8 Skinheads Questioned in Deadly Paris Brawl
  8 skinheads held in Paris brawl that left student dead, spurred calls for extreme-right ban        
  June 7, 2013 - ABC News
• 8 skinheads questioned in deadly Paris brawl - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  PARIS (AP) - Eight people linked to extreme-right groups are being questioned in the death this week of a young far-left militant after a fight with skinheads in Paris.
  June 7, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Michael Savage in Augusta Chronicle
  To link me up with skinheads who are killing people in Russia, to put me in league with Hamas murderers who kill people on buses, is defamation,Savage says.
• Childs in guardian.co.uk
  You think you had a bad night,says David Childs. "I had to sit in a bar in Macclesfield (only one open after 12), full of rabid skinheads watching some woman with a pot-belly belt out Ace of Base cover songs. Horrible is not the word."
• Morris Dees in Boston Herald
  It's very dangerous,said Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama organization that tracks more than 900 hate groups across the nation. "It confirms the belief of people to the far right, the neo-Nazis, the skinheads,...