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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 51
The study employed a phenomenological perspective in order to capture the participant’s
experience of the world. Phenomenology focuses on descriptions of what people experience and
how they experience what they experience (Patton, 2002). The phenomenological method
focuses on interpretation of events and not solely the events themselves. In my role as the
researcher, I reflected upon my own preconceptions about the data, and attempted to suspend
these in order to focus on grasping the experiential world of the research participant. Transcripts
were coded in considerable detail, with the focus shifting back and forth from the key claims of
the participant, to the researcher's interpretation of the meaning of those claims (Moustakas,
1994).
The aforementioned intellectual goals of qualitative research were well suited for the
study of critical consciousness and political efficacy. In particular, the primary goal of this study
was to understand how Black and Latinx students process orientation operates in relation to their
critical reflection and critical action. To understand the role of these students’ educational
experiences, both in school and its social contexts, demands a rigorous investigation of their
actions, lifeworlds and contexts, and meaning-making. As a secondary goal, the findings from
this study are intended to aid in improving the political education experiences of the Black and
Latinx students through documenting replicable narratives of critically conscious and politically
efficacious youth. Therefore, qualitative methods were best suited for this proposed study.
Narrative Epistemological Scope
Husserl asserted that noetics is a rudimentary science that should be centered around
phenomenological epistemology (Berghofer, 2019). Noetics investigates how beliefs, thoughts,
and intentions affect the physical world. Husserl stated that at its core, phenomenology has to be
epistemology. He writes, “epistemology is the discipline that is supposed to make all scientific
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 51 The study employed a phenomenological perspective in order to capture the participant’s experience of the world. Phenomenology focuses on descriptions of what people experience and how they experience what they experience (Patton, 2002). The phenomenological method focuses on interpretation of events and not solely the events themselves. In my role as the researcher, I reflected upon my own preconceptions about the data, and attempted to suspend these in order to focus on grasping the experiential world of the research participant. Transcripts were coded in considerable detail, with the focus shifting back and forth from the key claims of the participant, to the researcher's interpretation of the meaning of those claims (Moustakas, 1994). The aforementioned intellectual goals of qualitative research were well suited for the study of critical consciousness and political efficacy. In particular, the primary goal of this study was to understand how Black and Latinx students process orientation operates in relation to their critical reflection and critical action. To understand the role of these students’ educational experiences, both in school and its social contexts, demands a rigorous investigation of their actions, lifeworlds and contexts, and meaning-making. As a secondary goal, the findings from this study are intended to aid in improving the political education experiences of the Black and Latinx students through documenting replicable narratives of critically conscious and politically efficacious youth. Therefore, qualitative methods were best suited for this proposed study. Narrative Epistemological Scope Husserl asserted that noetics is a rudimentary science that should be centered around phenomenological epistemology (Berghofer, 2019). Noetics investigates how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world. Husserl stated that at its core, phenomenology has to be epistemology. He writes, “epistemology is the discipline that is supposed to make all scientific |
