Abstract
is study reconstructs a vague of subcultural racist violence at the beginning of the 1990s in the Czech part of former Czechoslovakia. It interprets it in longer prospective starting with the late 1980s subcultures and their relations to violence and delinquency.
Particularly it focuses on antiziganism (anti -Roma racism) and its acceptance by the wider Czech society. Focusing on skinheads and punks it argues that the wider acceptance of their violence on Roma was fostered through different means of subcultural, popular culture and media production.
Since many mental figures present in the subcultural production at the beginning of 1990s are still present in the Czech antiziganist discourse it interprets subcultural violence against Roma as canonical. Besides, racist subcultures have acted as an alibi for Czech majority society.