Tattoo culture on the US-Mexican borderTattoos so often carry negative connotations. But at Ol&

Tattoo culture on the US-Mexican borderTattoos so often carry negative connotations. But at Ol’ Skool Tattoos in Brownsville, Texas, many of the tattoos have to do with Mexican culture. The designs often say something about what life is like on the border.“I think that a lot of people here, if they’re not valued in the schools, if they’re not valued socially in their groups, they’re going to look for it through artwork, through tattoos,” says Daniel Aguilar, a grad student at the University of Texas at Brownsville, who has been researching the meanings of tattoos along this stretch of border called The Rio Grande Valley.Read the full story here.Photos: Brad Doherty -- source link
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