Rios Victor M.
Rios Victor M. - Human Targets Schools Police And The Criminalization Of Latino Youth - Paperback
Rios Victor M. - Human Targets Schools Police And The Criminalization Of Latino Youth - Paperback
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Description: At fifteen Victor Rios found himself a human target flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere he turned to a teacher who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life putting him on the road to college and eventually a Ph D. Now Rios is a rising star hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth. In Human Targets Rios takes us to the streets of California where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen - year - old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools homes community organizations and detention facilities watch them interact with police grow up to become fathers get jobs get rap sheets and in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid/bad kid street kid/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles. In Rios's account to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human target victimized and considered an enemy by others viewed as a threat to law enforcement and schools and treated with stigma disrepute and punishment. That has to change. This is not another sensationalistic account of gang bangers. Instead the book is a powerful look at how authority figures succeed and fail at seeing the multi - faceted identities of at - risk youths youths who succeed and fail at demonstrating to the system that they are ready to change their lives. In our post - Ferguson era Human Targets is essential reading.
Title: Human Targets Schools Police And The Criminalization Of Latino Youth
Author(s): Rios Victor M.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226090993
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2017
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Category: Education
Description: At fifteen Victor Rios found himself a human target flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere he turned to a teacher who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life putting him on the road to college and eventually a Ph D. Now Rios is a rising star hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth. In Human Targets Rios takes us to the streets of California where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen - year - old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools homes community organizations and detention facilities watch them interact with police grow up to become fathers get jobs get rap sheets and in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid/bad kid street kid/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles. In Rios's account to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human target victimized and considered an enemy by others viewed as a threat to law enforcement and schools and treated with stigma disrepute and punishment. That has to change. This is not another sensationalistic account of gang bangers. Instead the book is a powerful look at how authority figures succeed and fail at seeing the multi - faceted identities of at - risk youths youths who succeed and fail at demonstrating to the system that they are ready to change their lives. In our post - Ferguson era Human Targets is essential reading.
Title: Human Targets Schools Police And The Criminalization Of Latino Youth
Author(s): Rios Victor M.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226090993
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 3/8/2017
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Category: Education
