This article is a reflection on the development of an embodied data analysis framework, leading to critical interrogations of the micro level black and brown physical performances of culture and what they reveal about macro level social inequality. Working at the intersections of social science, dance, performance, and qualitative research as well as commitments to a social science that enacts a decolonizing methodology/pedagogy, an analytic framework is choreographed toward imagining possibilities that can be created in qualitative social science research when black and brown bodies and their performances are acknowledged as sites of knowledge production.
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