"I'm Trying to Prove My Identity Through Dance": Multiracial Undergraduate Dancers at a Predominantly White Institution

Abstract: Grounded in Critical Multiracial Theory and notions of performativity, this study utilized Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to examine 12 multiracial undergraduates' embodied experiences of monoracism within dance-based contexts at a predominantly White institution. Interviewees described the relative diversity of dance spaces, internalized monoracist messages about their bodies, and developed embodied agency to navigate monoracism in college.