Abstract

This thesis examines the survival strategies and resistance tactics performed and enacted by women of color undergraduates in academic spaces. Revisiting the classroom as a space of possibility and an (un)even site of encounter, this interdisciplinary project interrogates the relationship between race, place, and space. In addition, it asks different and more generative questions about knowledge production with/in the neoliberal university. As an exercise in speculative thought and practice, this research seeks to add to the existing literature on women of color as the theoreticians of their own lives.