Latin School

Wie kamen die italienischen Männer zu ihrem Ruf als Latin Lover? Was ist das Sinnliche an der klassischen Musik? Und wie findet man für die beste Freundin in New York einen Mann? In ihren Geschichten über Männer und Frauen geht Donna Leon Vorurteile und Idealbilder an, in der ihr eigenen direkten Art, amüsant, engagiert und ohne die Angst, als politically uncorrect zu gelten.

At 15, 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.

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 Good Boys, Bad Hombres, Michael V. Singh focuses on this aspect of youth control in schools, asking on whose terms a positive Latino manhood gets to be envisioned.