{ "item_title" : "Skinhead", "item_author" : [" Mario Garcia "], "item_description" : "They did not all enter the movement for the same reason, and they did not all believe the same things. Some came for the music, others for the clothes, the football terraces, the sense of brotherhood or the simple feeling that, for the first time in their lives, somebody was waiting for them somewhere. For many, it began with a shaved head, a pair of boots and a group of friends who seemed to offer something the outside world had failed to provide: identity, loyalty and belonging. Then, little by little, the lines became harder to see.BEYOND SKINHEAD enters a world that has often been reduced to a single image, exploring the different faces of a subculture whose history stretches from Jamaican ska, reggae and working-class British youth culture to political extremism, street violence, football hooliganism, racism, anti-racist movements and bitter internal divisions.Through thirty-six intense first-person stories inspired by real events, testimonies, social history and documented patterns of radicalization, former members look back on the moments that changed them. A teenager discovers a new family in the street after finding none at home, a young woman learns that she must become more violent than the men around her to earn their respect, a group that once claimed to be apolitical is forced to choose sides, a boy of immigrant background joins a movement whose prejudices eventually turn against people who look like his own family, musicians watch political organizations invade a scene that once belonged only to music, football supporters discover that the match was never really the point, and men who spent their youth believing loyalty meant never walking away eventually learn that leaving can be the most dangerous decision of all.These are not stories about monsters born different from everyone else. They are stories about anger, loneliness, manipulation, friendship, humiliation, masculinity, fear and the powerful human desire to belong somewhere, even when belonging begins to demand things that once seemed unthinkable.The book does not pretend that every skinhead was racist, violent or politically extreme, because the history of the movement is far more complicated than that. Traditional skinheads, anti-racist skins, politically active groups, football crews, extremists and people interested primarily in music have often existed side by side, sometimes sharing the same clothes while despising everything the others represented.Nor does BEYOND SKINHEAD romanticize the violence that became part of some corners of that world. Behind every confrontation, every beating and every act of intimidation were real people who carried the consequences long after the crowds had disappeared, and behind many of those who committed the violence were young men and women who discovered too late that the group that promised them an identity could also take one away.Some of the narrators escaped. Some went to prison. Some lost friends, families and years of their lives. Others still carry tattoos they no longer believe in, memories they cannot erase and questions they know will never have comfortable answers.Because sometimes the hardest part of leaving a violent world is not taking off the boots.It is discovering who you are when nobody is telling you who to hate.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/186/9798191869926_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.50", "online_price" : "12.50", "our_price" : "12.50", "club_price" : "12.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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