Latinx College Students

Innovations in Mental Health, Advocacy, and Social Justice Programs

Edited by:
José Miguel Maldonado, Liberty University
Adrianne L. Johnson, Wright State University

A volume in the series: Identity & Practice in Higher Education-Student Affairs. Editor(s): Pietro A. Sasso, Delaware State University. Shelley Price-Williams, University of Northern Iowa.

Published 2024

Counselors and educators are advocates for understanding ourselves, multiculturalism, and diversity in a societal climate of division. Provided the recent political coup and exclusion ideology, Latino Male students are marginalized because of cultural identity (Machismo) and cultural values. Due to the controversial nature of Machismo, masculinity, and language with Latino Males, multicultural educators are constantly silenced in universities by political correctness and censorship. Specifically, Latino Males are a direct target for incidences of racism, microaggressions, and oppression in our society. Colleges, universities, and counseling field has been moving forward slowly in its scope of “inclusion advocacy” for Latino Male students. There is a dearth in the empirical research on Latino Male experiences of otherness, indifference, and exclusion. The proposed textbook will establish viable, strategies to deepen cultural competence and inclusion advocacy. A competent framework for engagement is desperately needed in areas of inclusion, advocacy, and social justice for Latino Males. The convergence of sociopolitical views on diverse relationships has ignited an era of unrest, exclusion ideology, and remnants of mental distress and trauma in Latino communities.

The textbook/reader will specifically address the issues of Latino Male Machismo in colleges and universities. The authors will produce a variety of important readings (chapters) about Latino Male students, Otherness, and strategies for cultural inclusion of identity, values, and practices. The potential contributions from this research will provide a foundation for implementing innovative, inclusion programs for Latinx students as well. To further add content, critical incidences of bias, discrimination, otherness, and exclusion will be addressed in a manner that promotes a new form of connectedness for Latino Males in colleges and universities. The intended audience for this textbook/reader are counselor educators, student affairs professionals, counselors, and university counselors.

CONTENTS
Foreword, Adrianne L. Johnson. Preface: Empowered Voices Unite as One. Latinx and the College Experience, Alan Acosta. Latino Male College Students’ Counseling Practices, Javier Cavazos Vela. Latino Machismo: History, Trends, and Cultural Ideology, Zoricelis Davila and José Miguel Maldonado. Latino Males and Exclusionary Practices in College Settings, Ricardo Montelongo and Ray Barbosa. The Impact of Machismo in Latinx Men Seeking a Higher Education, Ruben Atilano and Edward A. Delgado-Romero. Converging Identities: Latinx Student Communities and Transformative Practices, Angy J. Estrada and José Miguel Maldonado. Latino Males, Gender Socialization, and Disparities, Geovani Muñoz, Camila Tirado, Cindy Hernandez, Isis Garcia-Rodriguez, Lisa Fuentes, and Oswaldo Moreno. The Mental Health of Undergraduate Undocumented / DACAmented Latino Males, Shelley Price-Williams and Jesús Lizárraga Estrada. Latinx Students, Career Theories, and Interventions, Vasti P. Holstun and Ramon Velez-Cruz. About the Contributors.