Meaning of gang member | Babel Free

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Someone regularly participating in the activities of a gang (group of hoodlums or criminals).

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“There is as well some narrative compression in the film, as befits the differences between the two media. […] The film conflates the characters of Royal Baron and Priest, who is referred to as a “businessman” early on by Duke. Similarly, the character of Chester, a black gay who has managed to escape⟳ the neighborhood by becoming an isolated, virtually imprisoned lover of a rich white man downtown (Duke describes Chester as having “a white man's face⟳ with a black skin over it”) is eliminated entirely from the film. In the book Duke attempts something similar, going with fellow gangmember Rod to Central Park⟳ at night to turn⟳ tricks, but this too is absent from the film although it is alluded to briefly in the dialogue when BeBop makes a sarcastic remark⟳ to Rod about prostituting in the park⟳.”

“Tie signs (e.g., having an alleged boyfriend show⟳ up at school to threaten⟳ gangmembers) are more substantively indicative of “anchored relationships” than simple cover⟳ stories and provide⟳ an “open⟳ and direct⟳ means for staking a claim⟳, the claim⟳ being a relationship to the [tied] individual” (Goffman 1971, p. 203).”

“On a recent stay⟳ at a hotel, my family selected an in-house video, “The Devil’s Own⟳,” co-starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on a young IRA gang member from Belfast played by Pitt, who has come⟳ to New York undercover to purchase⟳ illegal weapons.”

“Sociologists typically portray trust⟳ as a three-part relationship between (A) the “trustor,” (B) the “trustee,” and (X) the object or result⟳ toward which trust⟳ is directed. […] In the gang context, X may be to beat⟳ someone up, collect⟳ a debt, give⟳ early warning of police raid, deliver⟳ a message, or hide⟳ a murder⟳ weapon. If gang member B does X under the above conditions he is considered “trustworthy.” If gang member B is unable or unwilling to fulfill X then he is considered “untrustworthy.””

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