ABSTRACT Even though the Sandinista nation-building project claims to stand above ethno-racial differences and instead foregrounds class as the major social divider in Nicaragua, the popular experience of class on the mestizo-dominated Pacific coast remains heavily entangled with notions of whiteness/progress and darkness/backwardness. Given that bodies and spaces of social relegation are imbued with expectations of class and color, the social imaginary enveloping the prisoners is colorized in a particular way. However, through the institutional discourse of ‘cambio de actitud’ (change of attitude), Nicaraguan prisoners are pushed to engage in moral performances to lose their delinquent ‘color’ (also a popular metaphor for stigma). In doing so, they both embody and seek to distance themselves from their stereotypical presentation as urban ‘pintas’ (literrally ‘painted ones’, colloquially used to refer to ‘delinquent-looking’ young men). Based on long-term ethnographic research with (formerly) imprisoned young men, I draw out the imaginary surrounding the urban pinta, and then explore the metaphor of ‘color’ widely repeated by my research participants. In doing so, I argue that the ways in which (formerly) imprisoned young men resist and deal with the moral politics of policing and confinement reveals an inherent process of exposure; of coloring and losing color.

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从品脱到改变的人：在尼加拉瓜边缘进行重新插入并逃脱色彩

摘要尽管桑迪尼斯塔（Sandinista）的国家建设项目声称要超越种族-种族差异，而是将阶级作为尼加拉瓜的主要社会鸿沟，但在以混血为主导的太平洋海岸，人们普遍接受的阶级经验仍然与白人/进步的观念交织在一起。和黑暗/落后。鉴于社会降级的机构和空间充满了阶级和肤色的期望，囚犯的社会想象包围被以一种特殊的方式着色。但是，通过“行为改变”（cambio de actitud）（态度改变）的制度性论述，尼加拉瓜囚犯被迫从事道德表演，以丧失其犯罪的“色彩”（这也是普遍的污名化比喻）。在这样做，他们既体现并力求远离定型观念，如城市的“ pintas”（直译为“画作”，俗称“时髦”的年轻人）。基于对（以前）被监禁的年轻人的长期民族志研究，我绘制了围绕城市品脱的假想图，然后探索了研究参与者广泛重复的“色彩”的隐喻。在这样做时，我认为（以前）被监禁的年轻人抵制和处理警务和拘禁的道德政治的方式揭示了一个内在的暴露过程。着色和褪色。然后探讨我的研究参与者广泛重复的“颜色”隐喻。在这样做时，我认为（以前）被监禁的年轻人抵制和处理警务和拘禁的道德政治的方式揭示了一个内在的暴露过程。着色和褪色。然后探讨我的研究参与者广泛重复的“颜色”的隐喻。在这样做时，我认为（以前）被监禁的年轻人抵制和处理警务和拘禁的道德政治的方式揭示了一个内在的暴露过程。着色和褪色。