Face tattoos. Identifies as a white supremacist, but doesn’t identify with a prison gang.
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009
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Face tattoos. Identifies as a white supremacist, but doesn’t identify with a prison gang.
Uploaded on Dec 27, 2009
Posted in BIAS, body modification, corrections, CRIMINOLOGY, CULTURE, DEVIANCE, gangs, hate, homicide, law enforcement, RACE-ETHNICITY, racism, SOCIOLOGY, stigma, subculture, violence, Whites | Leave a Comment »
Tattoos have become popular in the United States among younger age groups, and having one on your body no longer marks you as a rebel. In fact, so many people have been getting tattoos in the U.S. that a reverse trend is now emerging, tattoo removal. VOA’s Mana Rabiee takes us to a tattoo removal clinic in Washington where clients go to erase their past.
Posted in beauty, body image, body modification, cosmetic surgery, CULTURE, fashion, social construction, SOCIOLOGY, symbolic interactionism | Leave a Comment »
Maria Jose Cristerna has become known as Mexico’s Vampire Woman, thanks to her almost total body tattooing and skull implants. Report by Sam Datta-Paulin.
Posted in art, beauty, body image, body modification, CULTURE, DEVIANCE, meaning, Mexico, social construction, stigma, symbolic interactionism | Leave a Comment »
In Benin, boys move toward manhood in a test of endurance by the sting of a whip.
Meanwhile, a girl transitions to womanhood through painful facial tattooing.
Posted in adolescence, AFRICA, body modification, CULTURE, femininity, gender roles, masculinity, norms, RELIGION, rituals, social construction, SOCIALIZATION, SOCIOLOGY, stigma, subculture, symbolic interactionism, violence | Leave a Comment »