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Looking at these pictures, I see innocence and nostalgia, and I wonder why that is. Surely these kids represent the same sorts of social pathology as contemporary gangs. But without guns or hard drugs -- does that make a big difference? Or is my image of them distorted by race, by a Happy Days view of kids on the 1950s, by the passage of time?
More here, and a NY Times story on Davidson here.
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