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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 109
this has given me, and it's made more compassionate. I really love that. I don't think I'd
exchange it for anything in the world.
Societal Issues & Causes
Same with police…if you're a hero I don't see Superman beating up on someone he saved
or shooting anyone that he saved. If you're going to be a hero, be a hero.
–Cedric
In addition to school clubs and organizations, all participants were active in
community organizations and efforts to resist wider structures. The participant efforts were wide
ranging and dealt with issues such as violence, guns and weapons, immigration, climate change,
economics, war, voting, queerness and equity, gender, race, class voting, Latinidad, anti-
Blackness, indigeneity, etc. Mentions of gentrification, police brutality, anti-capitalism, white
supremacy, anti-Blackness, toxic masculinity, communism, socialism, and feminism were
bountiful from multiple participants. In addition to formal organizations and affiliations,
participants resisted through displays of art, music, and culture. Because the participants organize
and are concerned with all of the aforementioned issues and causes this section will highlight the
different modes of efficacy that the participants engaged. This will focus on the how the
participants display their political efficacy and resistance efforts as opposed to each of the
aforementioned individual societal issues listed by participants during the interviews.
Ana’s personal experience with gun violence motivated her to join Students Demand
Action, which is a national organization working to end gun violence. The group proposes strict
gun laws in the United States.
…gun violence affects a lot in my community. My neighbor, he was shot and killed in a
drive-by right next to my house. My tia, she was shot by her significant other. He was a
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 |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 109 this has given me, and it's made more compassionate. I really love that. I don't think I'd exchange it for anything in the world. Societal Issues & Causes Same with police…if you're a hero I don't see Superman beating up on someone he saved or shooting anyone that he saved. If you're going to be a hero, be a hero. –Cedric In addition to school clubs and organizations, all participants were active in community organizations and efforts to resist wider structures. The participant efforts were wide ranging and dealt with issues such as violence, guns and weapons, immigration, climate change, economics, war, voting, queerness and equity, gender, race, class voting, Latinidad, anti- Blackness, indigeneity, etc. Mentions of gentrification, police brutality, anti-capitalism, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, toxic masculinity, communism, socialism, and feminism were bountiful from multiple participants. In addition to formal organizations and affiliations, participants resisted through displays of art, music, and culture. Because the participants organize and are concerned with all of the aforementioned issues and causes this section will highlight the different modes of efficacy that the participants engaged. This will focus on the how the participants display their political efficacy and resistance efforts as opposed to each of the aforementioned individual societal issues listed by participants during the interviews. Ana’s personal experience with gun violence motivated her to join Students Demand Action, which is a national organization working to end gun violence. The group proposes strict gun laws in the United States. …gun violence affects a lot in my community. My neighbor, he was shot and killed in a drive-by right next to my house. My tia, she was shot by her significant other. He was a |
