Vulnerable Praxis: Memory, Latino Manhood, and Social Justice

Abstract

Drawing from collaborative testimonios, the authors explore their identities via three themes: memory, Latino manhood, and social justice. Within these themes, the focus is on various dynamics that are situated within the authors' experiences as working-class males of color that grew up in urban spaces. Their journeys are bicoastal, as one of the authors is from the New York/New Jersey area and the other draws from his experiences on the west coast (Los Angeles, CA) of the United States. Also, the authors use music: As barrio kids, now at middle age, they have long used music to narrate, hope, change paths, and challenge violent