In this article, I explore how race and the body are central to social and education research on Black males. The guiding question of this essay is, How has the Black male body been conceptualized over time through qualitative description? I argue that, as Black males entered into new systems of reasoning, the Black male body was examined in different ways. Drawing from Sylvia Wynter’s concept of subjective understanding and David Theo Goldberg’s concept of racial knowledge, I explore the temporal and spatial meaning of qualitative description in the context of African American males. I conclude this essay by arguing for a different approach to qualitative description of Black males that moves beyond recycled stories of deficits or counter-narratives and on to explore the unimaginable.

在本文中，我探讨了种族和身体如何成为黑人男性社会和教育研究的核心。本文的指导性问题是，黑人男性的身体是如何通过定性描述随着时间的推移被概念化的？我认为，随着黑人男性进入新的推理系统，黑人男性的身体会以不同的方式进行检查。借鉴 Sylvia Wynter 的主观理解概念和 David Theo Goldberg 的种族知识概念，我探讨了非裔美国男性背景下定性描述的时间和空间意义。我通过主张对黑人男性进行定性描述的不同方法来结束这篇文章，该方法超越了重复的赤字或反叙事的故事，并探索了难以想象的事情。