This article features a critical discourse analysis of narratives gathered from Black men reflecting upon their travel experiences. Though the participants consistently referenced their race and gender through explicit mention and self-naming, ideas concerning the identity marker of class were most often communicated through silence characterized by imprecise, obfuscating language and indirect, euphemistic word choices. Using the tools of critical discourse studies, I explored the nature of these silences and the understandings they revealed in spite of being only indirectly spoken. The implications of this work are both conceptual and applied in nature. Conceptually, the analysis offers a model for considering, grappling with and ultimately mobilizing a data corpus’ instances of silence. The insights gained about the self-understandings of this underrepresented subgroup of study abroad travelers provide helpful information for student affairs and international education practitioners seeking to attract and better serve Black male students.

本文对从黑人男子那里收集的叙事进行批判性话语分析，反思他们的旅行经历。尽管参与者始终通过明确提及和自我命名来提及他们的种族和性别，但关于阶级身份标记的想法最常通过以不精确、模糊的语言和间接、委婉的词语选择为特征的沉默进行交流。使用批判性话语研究的工具，我探索了这些沉默的本质以及它们所揭示的理解，尽管只是间接地说出来的。这项工作的含义是概念性的和应用性的。从概念上讲，该分析提供了一个模型，用于考虑、应对和最终动员数据语料库的沉默实例。