ABSTRACT

Staging Dissent: Young Women of Color and Transnational Activism seeks to interrupt normative histories of girlhood dominated by North American contexts and Western feminisms to offer an alternative history of girlhoods produced by and through globalization. Weems does this by offering three case studies that exemplify how transnational and indigenous youth dissent against capitalism and colonialism through situated "guerilla pedagogies."

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|28 pages

Refuting “Refugee Chic”

chapter 3|18 pages

Intimate Sovereignty

chapter 4|18 pages

Decolonizing Research Praxis

Working Side by Side with Girls of Color

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion