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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 50
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
The previous chapter detailed the theories, terms, and the literature used in the study. This
chapter focuses on the methodology of the study. This phenomenological study examined the
educational experiences of Black and Latinx youth, how those experiences inform their
development of critical consciousness, and the relationship between critical consciousness and
student political efficacy. In addition, the study considered the roles of hegemonic whiteness,
anti-Blackness, and other intersecting systems of power in relation to the critical consciousness
and political efficacy of Black and Latinx youth. This chapter outlines the methodology, sample
population, data collection, and analysis procedures used in the study.
Methodology
This study is rooted in a qualitative approach in which I, as the researcher, employed a
process orientation to see the world in terms of people, situations, events, and processes that
connect how some situations and events influence others (Maxwell, 2013). Maxwell (2013)
outlines the intellectual goals for which qualitative study is suited, which include understanding
meaning of events and experiences; understanding contexts within which participants act and the
influence it has on their actions; understanding the process by which events and actions take
place; identifying unanticipated phenomena, and developing causal explanations. These
processes can aid the generation of results that can be understood by researchers and participants,
helping to improve existing policies and/or programs and engaging in community-based research
(Maxwell, 2013). This process orientation focuses on specific situations and people and
contributes to the intellectual goals of understanding meaning. Put differently, the focus on
process not only engages what and how events and behaviors taking place, but in how
participants make sense of them and how their understanding influences their behavior.
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 50 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY The previous chapter detailed the theories, terms, and the literature used in the study. This chapter focuses on the methodology of the study. This phenomenological study examined the educational experiences of Black and Latinx youth, how those experiences inform their development of critical consciousness, and the relationship between critical consciousness and student political efficacy. In addition, the study considered the roles of hegemonic whiteness, anti-Blackness, and other intersecting systems of power in relation to the critical consciousness and political efficacy of Black and Latinx youth. This chapter outlines the methodology, sample population, data collection, and analysis procedures used in the study. Methodology This study is rooted in a qualitative approach in which I, as the researcher, employed a process orientation to see the world in terms of people, situations, events, and processes that connect how some situations and events influence others (Maxwell, 2013). Maxwell (2013) outlines the intellectual goals for which qualitative study is suited, which include understanding meaning of events and experiences; understanding contexts within which participants act and the influence it has on their actions; understanding the process by which events and actions take place; identifying unanticipated phenomena, and developing causal explanations. These processes can aid the generation of results that can be understood by researchers and participants, helping to improve existing policies and/or programs and engaging in community-based research (Maxwell, 2013). This process orientation focuses on specific situations and people and contributes to the intellectual goals of understanding meaning. Put differently, the focus on process not only engages what and how events and behaviors taking place, but in how participants make sense of them and how their understanding influences their behavior. |
