Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated academic life in a predominantly white university to construct their own education.
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated acad...
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated academic life in a predominantly white university to construct their own education.
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated acad...
"Padilla writes with earnestness and concern ... the author never exploits or sensationalizes the kids he has written about ... this is vastly preferable to other recent titles on this timely subject."- Publisher's Weekly "This is the most thorough look at the operation of a violent street gang."-Library Journal "Makes a unique contribution to the literature on Puerto Rican ethnicity, a turf already centrally occupied by the author."-Jeffrey Fagan, Rutgers University "Padilla has dealt with gang drug dealing-one of the more sensationalized features of urban life-in a down-to-earth and...
"Padilla writes with earnestness and concern ... the author never exploits or sensationalizes the kids he has written about ... this is vastly prefera...
