Human Targets (Paperback)

Victor M. Rios

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2017

022609099X / 9780226090993

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Paperback. At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human targetflat 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 lifeputting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. 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 sheetsand in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who dont? 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 identitiesand that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles. In Rioss account, to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human targetvictimized and considered an enemy by others, viewed as a threat to law enforcement and schools, and burdened by 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 succeedand failat seeing the multi-faceted identities of at-risk youths, youths who succeedand failat demonstrating to the system that they are ready to change their lives. In our post-Ferguson era, Human Targets is essential reading. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Human Targets (Paperback)
Autor
Victor M. Rios
Editorial
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Año de publicación
2017
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
022609099X
ISBN 13
9780226090993

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