Poster #7 - This Is How We Do It: Cultural Hidden Curriculum Practices of Black Male Undergraduate Students

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Abstract

This study utilizes qualitative data from 28 Black male undergraduate students to investigate their experiences with hidden curriculum. While hidden curriculum refers to implicit lessons transmitted in schools, it also refers to dominant norms and behaviors that marginalized underrepresented students. To participants, daily hidden curricular messages in their university often have racialized/gendered undertones that influence their interactions and responses to institutional conditions governed by dominant hidden curriculum. Participant responses to this marginalizing aspect of dominant hidden curriculum can be described as a unique variation of hidden curriculum practices, which I refer to as cultural hidden curriculum (CHC). Findings highlight CHC, as informal practices that meet the specific need of participants as Black men attending a historically white institution (HWI).


Author

• Travis Ervin Dumas, University of California - Los Angeles