Whiteness as Structuring Property: Multiracial Women Students' Social Interactions at a Historically White Institution

The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of Multiracial women college students in a manner that frustrates the privileged location of whiteness and its intersecting systems of domination in higher education. To work toward this purpose, whiteness as property and intersectionality are used as conceptual frameworks to explore how whiteness structures 10 Multiracial women students' social interactions at a HWI. This study focuses on whiteness in an attempt to center Multiracial students, disrupt the normalization of whiteness, and complicate a body of higher education literature that privileges racial identity as the primary way to understand human experience.