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1. Invisible No More

   Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys

   Edited by Pedro Noguera, Aída Hurtado, Edward Fergus

   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,...

   Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge
2. Skin Color and Identity Formation

   Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

   By Edward Fergus

   Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

   The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in...

   Published September 19th 2004 by Routledge