Bad Boys by Arnette Ferguson

Paige Kahalnik Sociology pitiful Boys paper In the withstand, Bad Boys, Ann Arnett Ferguson goes on a trine-year go through Rosa Parks simple(a) School to observe and research wherefore it is that mostly scurrilous males ar finishing up in jail and argon unsalv mount upable from such(prenominal)(prenominal) a upstart period. She interviews and observes perfunctory inter perplex a motionions with the 11 and twelve year quondam(a) students that pretend been labeled at risk of infection by their teachers and peers. She wishs to research how it is macrocosm in naturalize when all told of the educators have already labeled them as unsalvagable, at risk, and surround for jail.These kids pretty much work on in the way that their teachers treat them. They train into trouble e rattling whiz mean solar day and most of the times these boys provoke it because thats how they think thither suppositious to bet because they think they be already expiration no where in life. At such a young age, these boys, just because they argon pitch-dark, shouldnt be criminalized and put in a different category than opposite boys. These children faced galore(postnominal) challenges that effected how they erudite in enlighten, the way teachers and peers hardened them, and how they be labeled as bad boys.Ann Arnett Ferguson express, in the course of my study it became clear that school labeling practices and the exercise of rules operated as part of a hidden curriculum to marginalize and sequestrate dumb male y surfaceh in disciplinary spaces and brand them as criminally inclined(page 2). This agency that the educators didnt rightfully realize they were doing this and labeling these boys but it was more athe likes of a tradition and they saw nought wrong with it. This is purely based on race and obviously both(prenominal) large number be still in the lookout that black bulk ar indifferent to clean-living pot.Bad boys show black males fr om a very young age world adultified and be conform to very manlike make them becomes part of the criminal system other(a) on. Adultification is a filter of overlapping representations of three socially invented categories of difference age, gender and race. This is reassert by labeling that humans argon different from animals, children different from adults, girls different from males, and blacks different from whiteneds. African American boys are in both ways displaced among society.Ann Arnett Ferguson says, they are not jutn as unsubdivided but adultified as black males they are denied the masculine dispensation constituting white males as being naturally naughty and are discerned as entrustfully bad(page 80). These African American boys are thought of being two things, either a criminal or an endangered species. They are not allowed to be naughty by nature jibe to society, but rather there mischief-making is a marking of vicious, inherent, insubordinate behavior.Af rican americans are containn as endangered victims, which makes them criminals. Ferguson states, It is their own dysfunctional and inappropriate behavior that causes African americans to destruct(page 82). There are two versions of childishness that are contradictory to each other. A real child would be seen as a little plants ready to create up accordingly which is what white custody were like to educators. On the other advance the African American boys were seen as children who are powerful, self centered, and have an agenda of their own.These black boys are seen as adults from such a young age, they seizet have time to be young and capture up because others make it expect like they are already fully grown. This drives them in the path to do bad things and make bad decisions. In the beginning of the book, the unrighteousness principal of Rosa Parks basal school said that most of the children in the school would be headed for jail and that there was a jail cell with som e of their names waiting on it. At first, Ferguson rejected this point of view and said that that was not exhalation to be trustworthy.After elevate research and observation, Ferguson definitely looked at the attitude differently. She said, While I rejected the labeling practices of the school vice principal , in my spread chapter, I also reluctantly admitted that by the end of school year, I overly had come to suspect that a prison cell might have a place in the future of umpteen Rosa Parks students (page 230). These boys have choose the way that people treat them and it has such a negative effect on them that they are probably heading to jail.They are all being punished so much and isolated from the schoolroom that they arent learning anything throughout the days. They dont have many social interactions and dont have full opening to resources that are needed. Educators might not see it, but they are a large(p) reason that these children and being put shadower bars and not meeting expectations that white boys meet. They are enured differently than white boys from such a young age, so they just start to act black like how everyone else thinks they should. They discern they are getting toughened differently, so they just support it that way. well-nigh of the people that end up in jail are usually African American boys. If these bad boys werent treated like they are some miscellanea of poison, maybe they wouldnt be stern bars as life goes on for them. African American boys have to seem masculine every single day from such a young age because they were labeled as adults so proterozoic on. These boys thrive on their maleness because this means that they have power and value. Their life doesnt have meaning if they arent throwing masculine performances to the best level. This is why so many African Americans get in trouble.They want to prove their masculinity through violence. When young African American boys are in school they fight to show othe rs who they are. Most of these boys identify themselves in groups like gangs because it is a sense of home for them. They are all being treated differently than others and they come together based on the concomitant of their race and how others see them. There is neer any white boys in these gangs they are all black. Gangs are a sign of family and equality when theyre with there homies. They do violent acts in gangs to show their masculinity to others and have others fear them.The overt and the media see them as ghetto black boys who arent ameliorate and are violent. Since so many people portray them as this, they tend to do these things. They know how people see them and so they act on it how they think they should be acting in correlation to what the media and macrocosm see them as. In the classroom the African American boys will talk out of turn, say mean comments to others, and not do any questions that the teacher asks. They see this as a masculine performance. It is fund amental for these boys to take in with power while in the classroom or they dont olfactory sensation like themselves.They are always seen as inferior to the white boys and girls in class, so they decide to stay that way and not play around with the hidden curriculum. Bad Boys shows that there is still race issues that are waiver on today. Whether the educators realize that they single out the black boys more than anyone or not, there hidden curriculum is very apparent in this book. Fergusons portrayal of what happens to black boys is very real and happens to tons of them. It is true that mostly African Americans end up in jail and that they are treated like adults from such an early age that they already feel grown up by the time they are eleven or twelve.These boys are supposed to act black, so they do. These boys are supposed to act masculine, so they fight. These boys do everything that the public and media say they should and they dont know any other way of how to act. This h as been going on for so long, that there is no turning back for these boys. This book will show people what is really going on and I think many educators, peers, parents, etc. will see this and really try to change the way they say and do things to African Americans. Maybe this book will turn some people around and these boys will be treated equally.