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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 61
follow-up and depth of analyses. A more rounded, holistic depiction of participant processing
may have been enhanced if participants were able to potentially photograph, document, and or
journal their experiences, resistance, and political efficacy.
During the interview process, and more specifically the exploration of participant
identities, the mental, emotional, and physical ability and disability status of the participants was
not documented for each participant. Due to the semi-structured protocol, incorporation of
narrative methodology, and inability to engage in second round interviews, follow-up became
infeasible for this study.
Researcher Positionality
This qualitative study will attempt to generate just research, characterized by Fine (2018)
as the investigation of counter-stories, counter-narratives, and counter-evidence to contribute
towards the global movement for justice and collective inquiry. In an effort to achieve this, my
positionality and role as a researcher must be taken into account. My research is not separate
from who I am in relation to the study. Living as a cisgender, able-bodied man, reared by a Black
father and Puerto Rican mother, heavily informs my worldview when studying the constructs of
gender and race. My professional career as a musician and educator affords access to and with
students, peoples, communities, educational institutions, curricula, etc. This has allowed for
rapport and trust building with those stakeholders, but has also honed my scope and paradigm.
My political and ideological orientation as socialist and anti-capitalist shapes my commitment to
research and scholarship that transform the ontological conditions of living. This positions my
research and analysis as an intervention that works to change the material conditions that
underlie oppressive social conditions (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2007).
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 |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume13/etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 61 follow-up and depth of analyses. A more rounded, holistic depiction of participant processing may have been enhanced if participants were able to potentially photograph, document, and or journal their experiences, resistance, and political efficacy. During the interview process, and more specifically the exploration of participant identities, the mental, emotional, and physical ability and disability status of the participants was not documented for each participant. Due to the semi-structured protocol, incorporation of narrative methodology, and inability to engage in second round interviews, follow-up became infeasible for this study. Researcher Positionality This qualitative study will attempt to generate just research, characterized by Fine (2018) as the investigation of counter-stories, counter-narratives, and counter-evidence to contribute towards the global movement for justice and collective inquiry. In an effort to achieve this, my positionality and role as a researcher must be taken into account. My research is not separate from who I am in relation to the study. Living as a cisgender, able-bodied man, reared by a Black father and Puerto Rican mother, heavily informs my worldview when studying the constructs of gender and race. My professional career as a musician and educator affords access to and with students, peoples, communities, educational institutions, curricula, etc. This has allowed for rapport and trust building with those stakeholders, but has also honed my scope and paradigm. My political and ideological orientation as socialist and anti-capitalist shapes my commitment to research and scholarship that transform the ontological conditions of living. This positions my research and analysis as an intervention that works to change the material conditions that underlie oppressive social conditions (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2007). |
