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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 95
It was advocating for different things. One it was I think advocating for charter school
rights, but we would also engage in things like initiatives, like bringing up the Latinx poll
and campaigning.
The group also worked to lead campaigns within school to address things such as the sex-education
curriculum. Rodrigo recalled,
We talked with her [sex-ed teacher] and the LGBT club about having a more inclusive
sex-ed curriculum by including gay sex and lesbian sex overall, because I remember
being in her class and she just talked about like-- it was just penis going into vagina.
In high school, Mary worked with the Feminist Majority Foundation to advocate for
equality through means that were philanthropic. She also was a member of Girls Learn
International, which focused on issues impacting women globally.
The Feminist Majority Foundation had a website that would give us resources to guide
conversations. We would talk about things from like, just natal and prenatal policy to
female genital mutilation. We would talk about everything that affected women globally.
As far as our fundraising, we'd do big sales. One year we held an art show that was
actually very successful. I think by the end of our time at the club, I think we gave them
like $600, $700. That's how much we ended up coming up with.
Cedric is a member of the Black Student Union at his high school. He expressed
frustration with the fact that the faculty advisor of the Black Student Union is non-Black Latinx
because he believes the few Black teachers on campus are not involved. He mentioned that Black
History month is not celebrated. He stated, “Our school is named Maya Angelou and half the
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 95 It was advocating for different things. One it was I think advocating for charter school rights, but we would also engage in things like initiatives, like bringing up the Latinx poll and campaigning. The group also worked to lead campaigns within school to address things such as the sex-education curriculum. Rodrigo recalled, We talked with her [sex-ed teacher] and the LGBT club about having a more inclusive sex-ed curriculum by including gay sex and lesbian sex overall, because I remember being in her class and she just talked about like-- it was just penis going into vagina. In high school, Mary worked with the Feminist Majority Foundation to advocate for equality through means that were philanthropic. She also was a member of Girls Learn International, which focused on issues impacting women globally. The Feminist Majority Foundation had a website that would give us resources to guide conversations. We would talk about things from like, just natal and prenatal policy to female genital mutilation. We would talk about everything that affected women globally. As far as our fundraising, we'd do big sales. One year we held an art show that was actually very successful. I think by the end of our time at the club, I think we gave them like $600, $700. That's how much we ended up coming up with. Cedric is a member of the Black Student Union at his high school. He expressed frustration with the fact that the faculty advisor of the Black Student Union is non-Black Latinx because he believes the few Black teachers on campus are not involved. He mentioned that Black History month is not celebrated. He stated, “Our school is named Maya Angelou and half the |
