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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 91
Kevin, for example, wrestled with the paradox of electoral politics as an efficacious
means of engaging in political transformation. Specifically, he questioned whether voting
mattered despite his own belief in its importance. Kevin surmises,
I think it's important, but then again, how much does our vote really count?...I feel like if
I learned more about gov[ernment], it's really is something important to me, of course,
my opinion's going to change. It's going to be most likely, "You should vote. You need to
vote." Until I know enough to really teach somebody and know myself. I'm not going to
speak about it or try to make anybody do anything else.
Similarly, Rodrigo discussed the specific importance of participating in local politics and such
engagement being more immediate toward achieving changes that have an immediate impact:
I would definitely get them to vote for local elections at least or state elections, because
they're much more direct. They're all direct, but those are more direct. I'd be like, "You
have to vote." I would try to persuade them [non-voters] because that will affect them.
Regarding local elections, Avery and Ana shared Rodrigo’s perspective. They also felt very
strongly that the Electoral College should be abolished due to its perceived undermining of the
individual, popular vote. As Ana stated,
For local elections, I think it's important. For the president, I don't think that my vote
even matters because of the electoral college. They're the ones that get the final say.
Usually, most times, they go based off what the popular vote says, but sometimes they go
the other way. Once I turn 18, I don't think I'm going to vote because it might not even go
in my favor.
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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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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 91 Kevin, for example, wrestled with the paradox of electoral politics as an efficacious means of engaging in political transformation. Specifically, he questioned whether voting mattered despite his own belief in its importance. Kevin surmises, I think it's important, but then again, how much does our vote really count?...I feel like if I learned more about gov[ernment], it's really is something important to me, of course, my opinion's going to change. It's going to be most likely, "You should vote. You need to vote." Until I know enough to really teach somebody and know myself. I'm not going to speak about it or try to make anybody do anything else. Similarly, Rodrigo discussed the specific importance of participating in local politics and such engagement being more immediate toward achieving changes that have an immediate impact: I would definitely get them to vote for local elections at least or state elections, because they're much more direct. They're all direct, but those are more direct. I'd be like, "You have to vote." I would try to persuade them [non-voters] because that will affect them. Regarding local elections, Avery and Ana shared Rodrigo’s perspective. They also felt very strongly that the Electoral College should be abolished due to its perceived undermining of the individual, popular vote. As Ana stated, For local elections, I think it's important. For the president, I don't think that my vote even matters because of the electoral college. They're the ones that get the final say. Usually, most times, they go based off what the popular vote says, but sometimes they go the other way. Once I turn 18, I don't think I'm going to vote because it might not even go in my favor. |
