{"pk":63179,"title":"I Always Knew I Was Gifted: Latino Males and the Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligences (MTI)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the work on “scholarship boys” (Carrillo, 2010; Hoggart, 1957/2006;Rodriguez, 1982), this qualitative study explores the schooling trajectories of working-class,Mexican-origin “ghetto nerds” (Diaz, 2007) in order to introduce Mestiz@ Theory ofIntelligences (MTI). For the purpose of this study, “ghetto nerd” is a concept that captures thepolitical, cultural, social, and aesthetic dimensions of three academically successful Mexicanoriginmales that were born and raised in low-income settings, urban communities in the U.S. Thisresearch expands on Howard Gardner’s (1985) Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory byconceptualizing a Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligences. As such, this study explores how workingclassLatino males perform and embody “gifted identities” as forms of intelligence. Findingsprovide a critical contribution to current debates on the academic underperformance of Latinomale students and notions of intelligence, and they offer the potential for cultivating and affirminggifted mestiz@ identities.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Latino Males"},{"word":"Intelligences"},{"word":"Urban Education"},{"word":"Gifted Education"},{"word":"Gender and Education"},{"word":"Education"},{"word":"Latino Studies"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xt2n97p","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Juan","middle_name":"Fernando","last_name":"Carrillo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2012-09-20T18:33:27Z","date_accepted":"2012-09-20T18:33:27Z","date_published":"2013-06-25T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63179/galley/48775/download/"}]}