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Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. Adam D. Reich, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes vividly and memorably about the young men he came to know, and in the process extends theories of masculinity, crime, and social reproduction into a provocative new paradigm. Reich suggests that young men's participation in crime constitutes a game through which they achieve ""outsider masculinity."" Once in prison these same youths are forced to reconcile their criminal practices with a new game and new ""insider masculinity"" enforced by guards and administrators.

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Adam D. Reich is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley.

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