Word: skinheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Antelope Valley's skinhead fringe Finnegan sees a new kind of despairing descent of the white middle class intersecting on the way down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...
...light of such events as the L.A. riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the resurgence of skinhead groups, Cleaver said, "King's assassination marks this country's colossal failure to heed his message...
...Increase in the number of organized skinhead groups, from 30 to 37, in the same period...
Rodney Gullatte Jr., 17, an African-American student in Sprayberry High School in Marietta, Ga., was still in middle school when he got his first lesson in racism. It was then that a group of white kids, whom he describes as part of a growing "skinhead" element in his school, began to harass him. "Hey, Rodney, how does it feel to be a nigger?" they would taunt. "How does it feel to know you'll always be a nigger? Is your mother a nigger too?" After a time Gullatte punched one of the white kids in the face. That earned...
...standouts on the recent album ("Lost Again," "Elvis & Me," "Whisky & Gin" and "Mr. Blue"). Many songs are straight from Lockjaw, including the punchy, bitter-sweet, nostalgic. "Shelly," and "Enough," their closest chance at breaking through to the pop radio realm. DHC even reaches back into their earlier days with "Skinhead Barbecue" and "He wants Me Back." On the latter, Rogers and Denike, invite a group of girls up on stage to sing along, emphasizing the band's respect for an actively involved audience, especially the female contingent...