Blackouts Themes and Issues

Skinheads, known mainly for their shaven heads, are members of the subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s, where it was closely associated with the Rude boy culture of West Indian immigrants and the Mods in the UK. One of the main themes of the play is the subculture of skin heads. When doing research I found out that there is more than one type of skin head, for example Neo-Nazis,SHARP (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) and traditional skin heads. Skinhead subculture varies from extreme racist views two anti-racist skin heads. When the skinhead culture first emerged in Britain, it was non racist and multi-racial. The white skinheads adopted and admired the clean cut dress sense and music of West Indian immigrants.  A lot of the violence that came out of skinhead culture was originally not racist in nature but was centred around football clubs and supporters.  early on there was a split between racist and non-racist skinheads. By the early 1970s in London there was the infamous incidence of packibashing and was reported internationally. Although there was no physical identification between the two there was a massive different in racial views.