Ø there's got to be a CHAT dissertation in here somewhere
...perhaps something having to do with a tendency toward normalization of identity-perhaps not unrelated to transitions in gay identity over the past half century.
David
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Smagorinsky
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Subject: [xmca] there's got to be a CHAT dissertation in here somewhere
The New York Daily News reported in June that members of gangs such as the Bloods and the Latin Kings, and who become parents, are routinely having their babies "blessed" into their gangs in religious ceremonies in which the swaddling clothes are the gang's colors. (The Bloods call such babies "Blood drops" or "Blood stains.") The Daily News described the parents "teaching chubby little fingers to [make] gang signs" even before the toddlers learn to talk. One Episcopal priest said he has "blessed in" about 300 such kids to two gangs. [New York Daily News, 6-15-08]
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