Summary Of Guilty By Association

For the reading “Guilty by Association” the main themes are on victimization, criminalization, punitive social controls, and acting lawful. Many of the students interviewed shared their feeling towards victimization and how it affected them. They felt they needed to navigate multiple worlds, in one they needed to maintain their native style and in the other they needed to embrace dominant cultural codes. They got beatings from both sides, from the educational system and law to family members and friend. One thought they were going to commit a crime in any moment and the other saw the as snitches. I feel that the purpose of the author writing this piece is to show how students of color are portrayed to be criminals and this has an effect of