Redshirt
Red shirt, Redshirt or Redshirts may refer to:
Groups and movements
- Redshirts (Italy), (Italian: Camicie rosse), followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Expedition of the Thousand.
Other groups and movements have use the phrase since Garibaldi. Among them are:
- Red Shirts (Mexico) (Spanish: Camisas Rojas), an anti-Catholic, paramilitary organization in Mexico in the 1930s.
- Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant, white, Southern opponents of blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after Reconstruction.
- Abahlali baseMjondolo, South African shack-dwellers' movement.
- Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against the British in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
- Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go, protesters against the Taiwanese President, Chen Shui-bian, in 2007
- National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand, supporting the deposed Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra
Individuals
Film and television
- Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character, originating in the original Star Trek TV series. In many episodes of Star Trek, red-uniformed security officers and engineers accompanying the main landing party will quickly die. Normally a new/unknown character.
- "Redshirt Blues", a 2001 Star Trek fan film parodying the use of redshirts
- Camicie rosse, a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi, the wife of Guiseppe Garibaldi, directed by Franco Rossi
Education
- Redshirt (college sports), delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
- Redshirting (academic), the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for emotional, intellectual or physical growth
Places
Other
See also