ABSTRACT
Historical accounts of postwar German youth subcultures usually begin with the rebellious Halbstarke-tht white, rock'n'roll-loving teenage crowds and neighbourhood groupings of the 1950s and 1960s. Class and gender aspects of youth subcultures, and the provocative potential of subcultural styles, can be observed in numerous German postwar youth phenomena. In relation to youth crime and public order problems the squatters's movement, ‘Punks', hooligans and ‘Skinheads’ were the most visible and provocative subcultures. Hooligans and ‘Skinheads’ consume high amounts of alcohol on a routine basis, so their inhibition to use and enjoy confrontations and hands-on violence is lowered. The chapter looks at practices of young males in subcultures which express xenophobic and racist orientations within a framework of masculinist norms. The inmates construct a typology of positive masculinities which includes themselves in a discourse of hegemonic masculinity and excludes 'Canucks' as parasitical enemy masculinities.
