Social invisibility refers to a group of people in the society who have been separated or systematically ignored by the majority of the public.
It can include disadvantaged, elderly homes, child orphanages, homeless people or anyone who experiences a sense of being ignored or separated from society as a whole.
This disconnectedness can lead to absorbed coping and breakdowns, based on the asymmetrical relationship between someone made invisible and others.
[5] Among African-American men, invisibility can often take the form of a psychological process that both deals with the stress of racialized invisibility, and the choices made in becoming visible within a social framework that predetermines these choices.
In order to become visible and gain acceptance, an African-American man has to avoid adopting behavior that made him invisible in the first place, which intensifies the stress already brought on through racism.