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Peer reviewedKatz, Susan Roberta – Social Justice, 1997
Explores how schooling serves to perpetuate the social expectations that criminalize urban Latino youth, following a sample of eight junior high school students. Even more than the racism of individual teachers, institutionalized racism stereotypes these students as doomed to fail or destined to be gang members. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Crime, Expectation, Hispanic Americans
