Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys

A new book by Metro Center's Pedro Noguera and Edward Fergus

Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys

Edited by: Pedro Noguera, Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus

Available at: Amazon.com

"This urgent book, masterfully compiled by Noguera, Hurtado and Fergus, paints a nuanced portrait of the lives of the men and boys of America's fastest growing ethnicity in their full and rich complexity; their struggles and travails, hopes and dreams. This is an indispensable book, required reading for anyone concerned with the country our children will inherit."
- Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Ross University Professor at New York University,and co-author of Latinos: Remaking America

"Essential reading for anyone seeking to pierce the veil that distorts and obscures the realities of Latino men and boys. Impressive in scope, ranging from education opportunities, to homophobia, to the loneliness that attends boys' passage into manhood. Excellent and bracing and important"
- Junot Díaz. Award-winning author of Drown and The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Description:

Latino men and boys in the United States are confronted with a wide variety of hardships that are not easily explained or understood. They are populating prisons, dropping out of high school, and are becoming overrepresented in the service industry at alarming degrees. Young Latino men, especially, have among the lowest wages earned in the country, a rapidly growing rate of HIV/AIDS, and one of the highest mortality rates due to homicide. Although there has been growing interest in the status of men in American society, there is a glaring lack of research and scholarly work available on Latino men and boys.

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume, edited by renowned scholars Pedro Noguera, Aída Hurtado and Edward Fergus addresses the dearth of scholarship and information about Latino men and boys to further our understanding of the unique challenges and obstacles that they confront during this historical moment. The contributors represent a cross section of disciplines from health, criminal justice, education, literature, psychology, economics, labor, sociology and more. By drawing attention to the sweeping issues facing this segment of the population, this volume offers research and policy a set of principles and overarching guidelines for decreasing the invisibility and thus the disenfranchisement of Latino men and boys.