For this discussion question, I have chosen to discuss the Victor Rios reading “Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance,”. I found this reading to be incredibly interesting as it framed and described the policing of minority populations, through the story of a young man named Ronny. The reading outlines how young black men, and racial minorities in general, tend to grow up in environments where they are deprived of the resources and opportunities to succeed in life. Therefore, these groups are often forced to create their own opportunities to counteract the negative circumstances that they are placed in (poverty, incarceration, violence). This process of creating culturally specific opportunities and resources, is called
