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At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - level on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fireplace, in need of money and a location on the road. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a full time income elsewhere, he considered a professor, who mentored him and helped him find employment at a car shop. That job would modify the span of his whole life - putting him on the path to college and finally a PhD. Now, Rios is a growing celebrity, hailed for his work studying the lives of BLACK and Latino youth. In Human being Goals, Rios takes us to the pavements of California, where we come across teenagers who find themselves in quite similar situation as 15-year-old Victor. We follow young gang participants into colleges, homes, community organizations, and detention facilities, watch them interact with police, expand up to become fathers, get jobs, get rap linens - and sometimes get killed. What is it that sets apart teenagers like Rios who be successful and endure from the ones who don't? Rios makes a powerful case that the original good kid/bad kid, avenue kid/decent kid dichotomy is a lot too simplistic, arguing instead that authorities and corporations help create these identities - and they can play an instrumental role in providing teenagers with the resources for moving between roles.

Category: Hispanic American Studies