This article reports on research with two Latino male youth workers who express strong criticism of their positioning as “positive” role models for struggling Latino boys in a Latino male mentorship program. Drawing from analytic frameworks attune to the intersectional politics of race and neoliberalism, this article centers the voices of these educators to raise important questions about the neoliberal logics commonly undergirding intervention strategies aimed at boys and young men of color. In particular, these youth workers outline the ways neoliberal notions of respectability and heteropatriarchy become the expected performances for Latino men working with Latino boys. They also describe the ways they resist the positive male role model label to challenge neoliberal definitions of Latino manhood.

本文报道了对两名拉丁裔男性青年工人的研究，他们对在拉丁裔男性指导计划中挣扎为拉丁裔男孩的“积极”榜样表示强烈批评。从分析框架的谐调到种族与新自由主义的交织政治，本文集中了这些教育者的心声，提出了有关新自由主义逻辑的重要问题，这些逻辑通常是针对有色男孩和年轻人的干预策略的基础。特别是，这些青年工人概述了新自由主义关于尊重和异族制的观念成为拉丁裔男子与拉丁裔男孩一起工作的预期表现的方式。他们还描述了他们如何抵制积极的男性榜样标签来挑战拉丁裔男子气概的新自由主义定义。