{"product_id":"good-boys-bad-hombres-9781517912970","title":"Good Boys Bad Hombres","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys and young men of color in schools—but what about the politics of empowerment and inclusion? In \u003ci\u003eGood Boys, Bad Hombres,\u003c\/i\u003e Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Based on two years of ethnographic research in an urban school district in California, \u003ci\u003eGood Boys, Bad Hombres\u003c\/i\u003e examines Latino Male Success, a school-based mentorship program for Latino boys. Instead of attempting to shape these boys’ lives through the threat of punishment, the program aims to provide an “invitation to a respectable and productive masculinity” framed as being rooted in traditional Latinx signifiers of manhood. Singh argues, however, that the promotion of this aspirational form of Latino masculi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409721827671,"sku":"9781517912970","price":81.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517912970.jpg?v=1730507796","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/good-boys-bad-hombres-9781517912970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}