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Carrillo 1  \nUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill  \nAbstract  \nDrawing 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 of Intelligences (MTI). For the purpose of this study, “ghetto nerd ” is a concept that captures the political, cultural, social, and aesthetic dimensions of three academically successful Mexicanorigin males that were born and raised in low-income settings, urban communities in the U.S. This research expands on Howard Gardner’s (1985) Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory by conceptualizing a Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligences. As such, this study explores how workingclass Latino males perform and embody “gifted identities” as forms of intelligence. Findings provide a critical contribution to current debates on the academic underperformance of Latino male students and notions of intelligence, and they offer the potential for cultivating and affirming gifted mestiz@ identities.  \nKeywords: Latino males, intelligences, urban education, gifted education, gender and education  \nTheorists-of-color are in the process of trying to formulate “marginal” theories that are partially outside and partially inside the Western frame of reference (if that is possible), theories that overlap many “worlds.” –Gloria Anzaldúa (1990)  \nNo le tengas miedo a los gringos. Tu sabes mas que todos ellos. (Don’t be afraid of white people. You know more than all of them.)–Celida Angulo Carrillo (author’s mother)  \nIt was a cold and gray January day in Cambridge, Massachusetts during my first year as an assistant professor. I entered the Harvard University campus to attend a lecture by Howard Gardner and was suddenly reminded of the surreal journey that had brought me to this point. As a high school student, I had been told, and reminded, by my teachers that nobody from my barrio would ever write a book. During my junior year of high school, a Los Angeles Police Department officer pulled me over while crossing the street on a busy Los Angeles boulevard and, at gun point, told me that one day I would grow up to be a drug addict and dealer. I had swallowed a burn and rage for much of life. I was fortunate that my mother provided me with advice that nurtured my resistance to arguments around  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr. Juan F. Carrillo, 212C Peabody Hall, CB 3500, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500. Email: [jfcarrill@email.unc.edu](jfcarrill@email.unc.edu).  \nBerkeley Review of Education Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 69-95  \n70 Carrillo  \nmy intellectual inferiority and hyper-criminality. Unfortunately, there are many workingclass, Latin@2 intellectual and cultural border-crossers who are marginalized by current definitions of achievement, cultural notions of intelligence, and deficit discourses germane to the Latin@ community. Moreover, psychometrics, a field of study that focuses on the measurement of human abilities, often dismisses us because it can’t see us in our full complexity. 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