Call for Authors: Latino Male Identity: A Mental Health Crisis of Otherness, Indifference and Exclusion

February 1, 2021

Call for Authors
Latino Male Identity:
A Mental Health Crisis of Otherness, Indifference and Exclusion
by José M. Maldonado, Ph.D., LPC and Adrianne L. Johnson, Ph.D., LPC

Dear Prospective Author/s,

How are you today? We welcome a call for authors as contributors for a textbook directed towards understanding Latino machismo as a mental health crisis of indifference, other names, and exclusion. Is there is include lived experiences, authentic journeys, and evidenced-based research in Latino Male Identity. 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. The textbook will be published by Information Age Publishing Company as part of the Identity & Practice in Higher Education-Student Affairs (IPHESA) text series.

Tentative Text Organization

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Latino Males and the College Experience
  • Chapter 2: Latino Males, Machismo, and Cultural Identity
  • Chapter 3: Latino Males: Indifference and Exclusion in College Settings
  • Chapter 4: Latino Males and Mental Health Practices
  • Chapter 5: Latino Machismo and Latinx Millennial Generations
  • Chapter 6: Latino Machismo, Gender Equality, and Masculinity
  • Chapter 7: Latino Males, Machismo, and the Achievement Gap
  • Chapter 8: Latino Males, Career Theory, and Cultural Identity
  • Chapter 9: Latino Machismo, Otherness, and Factors of Resilience
  • Chapter 10: Latino Machismo: History, Trends, and Cultural Ideology Chapter 11: Converging Identities: Latinos, Latinas, and Inclusive Practices
  • Chapter 12: Latino Males, Gender Socialization, and Disparities
  • Chapter 13: Latino Males and Exclusionary Practices in College Settings
  • Chapter 14: Latino Male Identity and Sexual Orientation
  • Chapter 15: Conclusion

Thank you for your interest in serving as an author to our textbook on Latino Male Identity in college settings. We will use an effective selection process for the most qualified authors based on expertise, writing, and commitment. We are deeply committed to understanding the cultural and theoretical constructs of Latino Male Identity, more specifically mental health practices in college settings. Given this premise, we seek to understand the connections between Latino Male Identity and mental health challenges of otherness, indifference, and exclusionary practices in
college settings.

About the Textbook

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/a communities. The textbook will specifically address the issues of Latino Male Identity 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 forms 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.

Chapter Guidelines

Chapters should address one of the topics from the tentative table of contents. Individual chapters must be no longer than 10-12 pages to a maximum of 15 pages (including references), limited to a maximum of three figures/tables/charts, and formatted with endnotes rather than footnotes. All chapters must be in APA 7 style with regard to in-text citation and references. All chapters must conclude with recommendations or implications for practice. If you would like to collaborate with other writers, opportunities are available for a maximum of three authors per chapter.

Completed chapter drafts will be due in summer, 2021.

To Submit a Proposal

This text is seeking immediate and rolling submission of chapter abstracts. Prospective authors should contact the editor, Dr. Jose Maldonado, jmmaldonado1@liberty.edu with an abstract of no more than 250 words and a bio of all chapter author(s).

For general inquiries, questions, contact

José M. Maldonado, Ph.D., LPC
Associate Professor, Department of Counselor Education and Family Studies
Liberty University
jmmaldonado1@liberty.edu
(210) 569-2735

About the Text Editors

Dr. Maldonado engages critical discourse in multicultural counseling through advocacy initiatives in communities and neighborhoods. He has committed to fostering new ideas and publications about mental health practices in schools and universities. Professor Maldonado regularly teaches courses on social justice advocacy, racial trauma, and marginalized communities. He has proposed several teaching models for culturally-competent counseling with Latino/a families.

Dr. Johnson actively contributes to counseling and wellness through leadership in organizational memberships, collaborative advocacy efforts in the fields of counseling and education, research-based advancement of counseling knowledge and practice. She has published and internationally presented on various topics related to best practices and treatments in clinical mental health counseling, disability, neuroscience, lifespan, theory, and diversity in client populations.