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“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
“Do It For All Your Pubic Hairs!”: Latino Boys, Masculinity, And Puberty, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
The literature on masculinity lacks thorough and sustained in situ examinations of how diverse boys employ their bodies to construct masculine identities during pubescence. To address this gap, the present article examines how a group of 10 sixth-grade Latino boys, who publicly acknowledged that they were experiencing puberty, employed their bodies at school to construct their masculine identities. The data suggest that among the boys, puberty was a social accomplishment connected to masculine enactments informed by the dominant gendered expectations of peers at school and in their neighborhoods, the hegemonic masculine practices espoused by commercial hip hop rappers, and the …
On Ideas, Life, And Death, Richard Mora
José Ángel Guitierrez Martínez, Richard Mora
Diversity Day: Immigration, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Diversity Day: Immigration, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
“No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes Of Urban Working Class Students, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
The Cinematic Cholo In Havoc, Richard Mora
The Cinematic Cholo In Havoc, Richard Mora
Richard Mora
For over a century now, ‘the motion-picture industry [...] has functioned as the primary transmitter of racist Latino/a images’ (Castro 2006: 89). The cholo, or Chicano gang member, is a prevalent archetypal figure used to depict Mexican and Mexican American men and youth on the screen.1 The ‘inarticulate, violent, and pathologically dangerous “bandidos”’ of the silent film era have been transformed into the cholo (Berg 2002: 69). As the reel descendent of the Mexican bandido, the cholo is of questionable character, with few redeeming qualities. Like his predecessor, the cinematic cholo is an abject being (Mora 2011). In this text, …
Feeding The School-To-Prison Pipeline: The Convergence Of Neoliberalism, Conservatism, And Penal Populism, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Feeding The School-To-Prison Pipeline: The Convergence Of Neoliberalism, Conservatism, And Penal Populism, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.
Children, Development, And The Textual Gun Dilemma, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Children, Development, And The Textual Gun Dilemma, Richard Mora, Mary Christianakis
Richard Mora
No abstract provided.