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Human Targets - Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth (Paperback)
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Human Targets - Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth (Paperback)
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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 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 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.
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