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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 94
I think education should be different. I don't feel a certain way about my school because I
know it's not only my school specifically, it's a problem in the system. We focus too much
on what the great white men did…We do need to touch on African-American history. We
do need to touch on Latino culture more. It's known, and awareness isn't the problem.
Now it's about action like, "What classes are we going to change or what classes are we
going to add? What class are we going to take away? How can we change the
curriculum?" …White people aren't the only race in the world and white people aren't the
only race that was involved."
In addition to joining his school’s Black Student Union, Kevin worked to found a school
organization to assist Black students with gaining access to resources within a predominately
white school. Kevin also plans to have the group address curriculum with the school
administration.
The purpose is to help Black students to not get lost. If you ask black students at my
school in 12th grade and 11th grade right now about certain classes, they'll have no idea
that those classes are available to them. They have no idea about the resources they have.
It's like, how do we prevent them from getting lost and how do we make sure that they
know they have access to these?
Rodrigo was the leader of the Students Organizing Civic Engagement club at school. The
club worked to educate themselves on electoral politics, specifically regarding charter school
rights.
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 |
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| Filename | etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume13/etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 94 I think education should be different. I don't feel a certain way about my school because I know it's not only my school specifically, it's a problem in the system. We focus too much on what the great white men did…We do need to touch on African-American history. We do need to touch on Latino culture more. It's known, and awareness isn't the problem. Now it's about action like, "What classes are we going to change or what classes are we going to add? What class are we going to take away? How can we change the curriculum?" …White people aren't the only race in the world and white people aren't the only race that was involved." In addition to joining his school’s Black Student Union, Kevin worked to found a school organization to assist Black students with gaining access to resources within a predominately white school. Kevin also plans to have the group address curriculum with the school administration. The purpose is to help Black students to not get lost. If you ask black students at my school in 12th grade and 11th grade right now about certain classes, they'll have no idea that those classes are available to them. They have no idea about the resources they have. It's like, how do we prevent them from getting lost and how do we make sure that they know they have access to these? Rodrigo was the leader of the Students Organizing Civic Engagement club at school. The club worked to educate themselves on electoral politics, specifically regarding charter school rights. |
