The Audacity of Cool: Contextualizing and Investigating Cool for Black Male College Students

• In Event: 73.060 - Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: 73.060-4 - Exploration of Educational Experiences of Black Learners

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of cool for Black male college students. Cool, defined as a means to navigate cross-cultural structures, serves as Black men’s acknowledgement of, and response to, the rules of their self identified cultural group when confronted by dominant racial, gendered, and/or class hegemonies. Results of this study note that cool is a major part of the fabric in the identity development of Black males and is contextualized through environmental factors.

Author

• Kyle N. Boone, Huston-Tillotson University