Discusses how to theorize diverse, working-class male students' masculinities within an inner-city, multicultural context. Data from discussions with boys at one inner-city London school are used to illustrate the boys' complex constructions of culturally entangled masculinities. Examines boys' constructions of "bad boy" masculinities that are positioned in opposition to education in relation to themes of hegemony, patriarchy, and racial/class inequalities. (Contains references.) (SM)