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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 104
the different environment. Perhaps more revealing is the degree and method of resistance shifts
relative to the schools that the students attend, and the resources that they have access to.
Although the participants wield individual anti-capitalist praxes and are in opposition of the
educational system, their frameworks of resistance, critical action, and transcendence swing
more anti-establishment pending the material resources made available to them during their high
school experience. Shay and Avery advocated for the destruction of schooling systems and
policies, and were more likely to consistently and directly challenge and resist school officials
and policies, verbally, with various methods of direct action, and with legal action. Cedric
participated in school walk-outs and protests that were not sanctioned by administration. Ana,
Rafael, and Rodrigo are in different grades but were all members of the Associated Student Body
at different times. The questioned school policies and teacher practices, but were not necessarily
thinking of economic disparities in education due to their access to laptops and resources. Kevin
and Mary’s internal school political efficacy focused on working within mostly already existing
school structures and groups to advocate for awareness and change.
Home, Family & Friends
A lot of immigrant parents say that this is the price to pay for freedom. This is the price to
pay to be in this country. I feel like my mom really believes that, but I'm like, no, it's our
job to dismantle that. It's our job to change that.
-Rafael
The study participants’ displays of political efficacy were not absent of strife in the
relationship dynamics with family, friends, and other social groups. Many participants lamented
over the difficulty in their efforts to teach, motivate, radicalize, and expand the paradigm of those
closest to them. For some participants, balancing their evolving critical consciousness with the
perceived stagnant consciousness of their family and friends was a struggle. Due to this, some
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. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 104 the different environment. Perhaps more revealing is the degree and method of resistance shifts relative to the schools that the students attend, and the resources that they have access to. Although the participants wield individual anti-capitalist praxes and are in opposition of the educational system, their frameworks of resistance, critical action, and transcendence swing more anti-establishment pending the material resources made available to them during their high school experience. Shay and Avery advocated for the destruction of schooling systems and policies, and were more likely to consistently and directly challenge and resist school officials and policies, verbally, with various methods of direct action, and with legal action. Cedric participated in school walk-outs and protests that were not sanctioned by administration. Ana, Rafael, and Rodrigo are in different grades but were all members of the Associated Student Body at different times. The questioned school policies and teacher practices, but were not necessarily thinking of economic disparities in education due to their access to laptops and resources. Kevin and Mary’s internal school political efficacy focused on working within mostly already existing school structures and groups to advocate for awareness and change. Home, Family & Friends A lot of immigrant parents say that this is the price to pay for freedom. This is the price to pay to be in this country. I feel like my mom really believes that, but I'm like, no, it's our job to dismantle that. It's our job to change that. -Rafael The study participants’ displays of political efficacy were not absent of strife in the relationship dynamics with family, friends, and other social groups. Many participants lamented over the difficulty in their efforts to teach, motivate, radicalize, and expand the paradigm of those closest to them. For some participants, balancing their evolving critical consciousness with the perceived stagnant consciousness of their family and friends was a struggle. Due to this, some |
