Referred to as “cultural misframing,” this institutional misreading of what boys and young men of color bring to the learning environment causes them to receive less emotional support. Rios used his recent work-a two-year school ethnography on classroom context, teacher supports, and the role of race-to illustrate how schools produce a “youth control complex” that strips Black and Latino male students of their dignity and devalues their perspectives. ![]() Drawing from his first book, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, which chronicles the adultification of children of color in the school-to-prison pipeline, and his recent book, Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth, Rios emphasized the need to move beyond describing the behaviors of marginalized young people in ways that dichotomize, distort, and deny the full range of their humanity. In the context of increased school policing, the militarization of urban neighborhoods, and the political demonizing of youth of color, his talk provided a critical humanist perspective. Victor Rios, Sociology Professor at UC Santa Barbara, visited UC Berkeley on February 2 to discuss the criminalization of Black and Latino boys, and his nearly 20 years of research examining the perspective of youth experiencing punitive social control on the streets and in schools.
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