"Roses have thorns for a reason": The promises and perils of critical youth participatory research with system‐impacted girls of Color.
Scholarship on girlhood—especially for girls of Color—is often relegated to studying risk and emphasizing individual deficits over humanizing girls and centering their voices. This approach to generating scholarship renders oppressive systems and processes invisible from inquiry and unaddressed by p...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 73; no. 1/2; pp. 144 - 159 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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