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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 10
sense of the fugitive law of movement that makes black social life ungovernable,
that demands a paraontological disruption of the supposed connection between
explanation and resistance (p.142).
Moten (2018) asks, “What’s the relation between explanation and resistance? Who bears
the responsibility of discovering an ontology of, or of discovering for ontology, the ensemble of
political, aesthetic, and philosophical derangements that compose the being that is neither for
itself nor for the other (p.142).”
The desire to engage in this discovery and find another way of being in the world is
essential to the art of hood politics. In the context of this study, ‘hood’ is used as a shortened term
for neighborhood by many participants and myself. It invokes sentiments of community,
struggle, and transcendence. The term ‘hood politics’ signifies fugitivity and the struggle for
freedom endured by Black and Latinx youth in the study who live in various parts of Los
Angeles. The impetus to decolonize and engage in subversive methods of resistance is captured
through the way the youth live and show living. This surfaces in their analytical prowess,
political engagement, acts of protest and resistance, the power in naming, and their desire to
transcend. This is also prevalent in how Black and Latinx youth produce, engage, and curate art
music, and culture.
Statement of the Problem
Although there have been very few studies on youth that center critical consciousness, some
researchers have utilized the theory to develop scales, metrics, and other means of quantifying
the critical consciousness of young people (Diemer & Rapa, 2016; Diemer, Rapa, Park, & Perry,
2017; Watts, Griffith, & Abdul-Adil, 1999). However, critical consciousness research is often
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 10 sense of the fugitive law of movement that makes black social life ungovernable, that demands a paraontological disruption of the supposed connection between explanation and resistance (p.142). Moten (2018) asks, “What’s the relation between explanation and resistance? Who bears the responsibility of discovering an ontology of, or of discovering for ontology, the ensemble of political, aesthetic, and philosophical derangements that compose the being that is neither for itself nor for the other (p.142).” The desire to engage in this discovery and find another way of being in the world is essential to the art of hood politics. In the context of this study, ‘hood’ is used as a shortened term for neighborhood by many participants and myself. It invokes sentiments of community, struggle, and transcendence. The term ‘hood politics’ signifies fugitivity and the struggle for freedom endured by Black and Latinx youth in the study who live in various parts of Los Angeles. The impetus to decolonize and engage in subversive methods of resistance is captured through the way the youth live and show living. This surfaces in their analytical prowess, political engagement, acts of protest and resistance, the power in naming, and their desire to transcend. This is also prevalent in how Black and Latinx youth produce, engage, and curate art music, and culture. Statement of the Problem Although there have been very few studies on youth that center critical consciousness, some researchers have utilized the theory to develop scales, metrics, and other means of quantifying the critical consciousness of young people (Diemer & Rapa, 2016; Diemer, Rapa, Park, & Perry, 2017; Watts, Griffith, & Abdul-Adil, 1999). However, critical consciousness research is often |
