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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 34
decolonizing consciousness. Go (2018) utilizes postcolonial theory to center de-colonialist
discourse, cultural processes of empire, and the psychological impact of racial hierarchies, which
he claims Marx treated as epiphenomenal.
According to Marx’s alienation theory, the exploitative nature of capitalism extracts more
value from laborers than what they receive in wages (Marx, 1959). Marx describes a process by
which workers are become alienated first from their activity and then from their humanity.
Marx’s approach to alienation theory situates exploitation as a method taking the fruits of labor
from workers and alienation as a method of robbing workers of their being (Hudis, 2015). Fanon
believed racism to be the highest expression of alienation. This approach is more ontological, as
it emphasizes the psychological impact of alienation, as opposed to Marx’s emphasis on
economic impact. In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon (1952/2008) states:
There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an incline stripped
bare of every essential from which a genuine new departure can emerge...Man is not only
the potential for self-consciousness or negation. If it be true that consciousness is
transcendental, we must also realize that this transcendence is obsessed with the issue of
love and understanding (p. xii).
Fanon describes dis-alienation as the process of transcending alienation (Hudis, 2015).
Fanon frames this transcendence as a possibility through the development of self-consciousness,
understanding, and ultimately, love. The inclusion of radical love and consciousness as a
foundational part of liberation is why Fanon is often politically characterized as a Marxist
Humanist. It is in this humanist spirit that Fanon coins the French term ‘conscienciser’ when he
urges that the oppressed ‘consciousnessize’ [verb] their unconscious and enact social change
(Fanon, 1952/2008).
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| 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 |
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| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 34 decolonizing consciousness. Go (2018) utilizes postcolonial theory to center de-colonialist discourse, cultural processes of empire, and the psychological impact of racial hierarchies, which he claims Marx treated as epiphenomenal. According to Marx’s alienation theory, the exploitative nature of capitalism extracts more value from laborers than what they receive in wages (Marx, 1959). Marx describes a process by which workers are become alienated first from their activity and then from their humanity. Marx’s approach to alienation theory situates exploitation as a method taking the fruits of labor from workers and alienation as a method of robbing workers of their being (Hudis, 2015). Fanon believed racism to be the highest expression of alienation. This approach is more ontological, as it emphasizes the psychological impact of alienation, as opposed to Marx’s emphasis on economic impact. In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon (1952/2008) states: There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an incline stripped bare of every essential from which a genuine new departure can emerge...Man is not only the potential for self-consciousness or negation. If it be true that consciousness is transcendental, we must also realize that this transcendence is obsessed with the issue of love and understanding (p. xii). Fanon describes dis-alienation as the process of transcending alienation (Hudis, 2015). Fanon frames this transcendence as a possibility through the development of self-consciousness, understanding, and ultimately, love. The inclusion of radical love and consciousness as a foundational part of liberation is why Fanon is often politically characterized as a Marxist Humanist. It is in this humanist spirit that Fanon coins the French term ‘conscienciser’ when he urges that the oppressed ‘consciousnessize’ [verb] their unconscious and enact social change (Fanon, 1952/2008). |
