“…Research on the educational experiences of Black male collegians has increased over the past 20 years and become an important area of research (Brooms, Goodman, & Clark, 2015;Harper & Kuykendall, 2012;Palmer et al, 2014). Black male collegians face societal, academic, and cultural dilemmas atypical of other college students that threaten their success (Brooks, Jones, & Burt, 2013;Smith, Allen & Danley, 2007;Strayhorn, 2008); some of the challenges include: underrepresentation (Davis, 1994;Palmer et al, 2014;Strayhorn, 2010); feelings of isolation (Cuyjet, 2006;Harper, 2013); stereotype threat (Fries-Britt & Turner, 2001); and gendered racism and hypersurveillance (Smith et al, 2011).…”