Still Invisible: Young Black Working-Class Men in Canada

Still Invisible: Young Black Working-Class Men in Canada challenges the widespread tendency to treat impoverished Black male youth as a single, uniform group.While anti-Black racism shapes all Black lives, this book shows how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct and uneven barriers to opportunity. The book offers a powerful, human-centred account of how young Black men navigate work, institutions, and survival in Canada today.Drawing on research with first- and second-generation Black male youth in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, it examines how participants engage with youth employment training programs (YETPs) while confronting anti-Black racism, gender bias, and class-based exclusion.It situates these programs within a broader neoliberal political-economic context and a colonized nation-state, showing how dominant ideas about Black masculinity shape policy, practice, and service delivery.The analysis traces how informal learning spaces, employment-seeking strategies,