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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 9
a result of societal and educational harm that threatens their humanity and results in resistance
and decolonial efforts.
Frantz Fanon posited that decolonization requires the colonized to take, rather than
accept, the condition of freedom (Roberts, 2004). Fanon (1952/2008) urges political theorists to
move beyond paradigm of instrumentalism writing, “No attempt must be made to encase man,
for it is his destiny to be set free. The body of history does not determine a single one of my
actions. I am my own foundation. And it is going beyond the historical, instrumental hypothesis,
that I will initiate the cycle of my own freedom.”
Saidiya Hartman similarly warns of domains of enclosure, such as the ghetto, where the
inevitable consequence of conditions is death. For Black women, Hartman posits that escaping
domains of enclosure and fleeing organized terms (that make sense of women, worker, student,
citizen etc) display practices of fugitive feminism and exhibit the anarchy of colored girls
(Hartman, 2018). Existing as ungovernable and unassimilable, Black women embody anti-state
practices that characterize them as nothing short of treason (Hartman, 2018).
Fred Moten (2018) captures the complexity of framing enclosures, fugitivity,
Blackness, Fanon, and resistance, writing:
What’s at stake is fugitive movement in and out of the frame, bar, or whatever
externally imposed social logic—a movement of escape in and from pursuit, the
stealth of the stolen that can be said, since it inheres in every closed circle, to
break every enclosure. This fugitive movement is stolen life and its relation to law
is reducible neither to simple interdiction nor bare transgression. Part of what can
be attained in this zone of unattainability, to which the eminently attainable ones
have been relegated, which they occupy but cannot (and refuse to) own, is some
Object Description
| Title | Subverting state violence through the art of hood politics: an exploratory study of Black and Latinx students' critical consciousness and political efficacy |
| Author | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
| Author email | kwrodger@usc.edu;kenneth.rodgersjr@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Educational Leadership |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2020-06-25 |
| Date submitted | 2020-08-07 |
| Date approved | 2020-08-08 |
| Restricted until | 2020-08-08 |
| Date published | 2020-08-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Davis, Charles H.F., III |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hancock Alfaro, Ange-Marie Green, Alan |
| Abstract | This qualitative study examines the experiences of Black and Latinx youth, the relationship between their critical consciousness development and political efficacy, and their continual subversion of state violence. The academic literature has predominately focused on critical consciousness solely as theorized by Freire and is often interpreted through neoliberal entities and paradigms, thereby minimizing its socialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist theoretical origin. The literature has also gauged political efficacy primarily through traditional metrics of civic engagement and voting that do not traditionally account for varying displays of organizing, activism, intentional non-voting, and other forms of resistance. The study investigated systems of power that converge to shape formal and informal educational experiences of the participants and capture the ways that they developed their critical consciousness and political attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. As a result of 8 in-depth interviews and analyses of Black and Latinx youth (ages 17-19), snapshots emerged that allowed participants to foreground their experiences and construct meaning making of their worldviews. The findings of the study reveal the complex nature of critical consciousness development for Black and Latinx youth and serve as a model for utilizing critical consciousness and political efficacy as essential frameworks for future study and analyses. The findings add to the limited literature on the experiences of Black and Latinx youth concerning the system of education and its relation to critical consciousness development, political identity formation, and political efficacy. This study aimed to amplify the voices of Black and Latinx youth in a manner that acknowledges their humanity and agency. |
| Keyword | politics; political; political efficacy; efficacy; resistance; protest; hood; subvert; subverting; subversion; resist; state violence; state; Black; Latinx; socialist; anti-capitalist; anti-Blackness; communism; Marxism; decolonial; decolonization; critical consciousness; racism; white supremacy; gender; patriarchy; religion; anti-colonial; anti-capitalist; Freire, Paulo Freire; Frantz Fanon; Fred Moten; Karl Marx; Saidiya Hartman; education; schools; youth; exploratory; intersectionality; Crenshaw; Kimberle Crenshaw; Collins; James Baldwin; Gloria Anzaldua; whiteness; civics; civic engagement; neoliberalism; democracy; social justice; domination; power; gender; curriculum; walk-out; sit-in; paradigm intersectionality; BlackCrit; critical race theory, Henry Giroux; Kendrick Lamar; Wardell Milam |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
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| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 9 a result of societal and educational harm that threatens their humanity and results in resistance and decolonial efforts. Frantz Fanon posited that decolonization requires the colonized to take, rather than accept, the condition of freedom (Roberts, 2004). Fanon (1952/2008) urges political theorists to move beyond paradigm of instrumentalism writing, “No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. The body of history does not determine a single one of my actions. I am my own foundation. And it is going beyond the historical, instrumental hypothesis, that I will initiate the cycle of my own freedom.” Saidiya Hartman similarly warns of domains of enclosure, such as the ghetto, where the inevitable consequence of conditions is death. For Black women, Hartman posits that escaping domains of enclosure and fleeing organized terms (that make sense of women, worker, student, citizen etc) display practices of fugitive feminism and exhibit the anarchy of colored girls (Hartman, 2018). Existing as ungovernable and unassimilable, Black women embody anti-state practices that characterize them as nothing short of treason (Hartman, 2018). Fred Moten (2018) captures the complexity of framing enclosures, fugitivity, Blackness, Fanon, and resistance, writing: What’s at stake is fugitive movement in and out of the frame, bar, or whatever externally imposed social logic—a movement of escape in and from pursuit, the stealth of the stolen that can be said, since it inheres in every closed circle, to break every enclosure. This fugitive movement is stolen life and its relation to law is reducible neither to simple interdiction nor bare transgression. Part of what can be attained in this zone of unattainability, to which the eminently attainable ones have been relegated, which they occupy but cannot (and refuse to) own, is some |
