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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 110
domestic abuser. He ended up killing himself. I guess it's the easy access to guns. I guess
in a way the low standards-- No, restrictions. They're not strict enough to actually help
people.
While working with Students Demand Action, Ana has flown to the east coast on
multiple occasions to continue learning and lobby for gun violence related issues. Ana has also
organized local events in her community of South Central to educate, lobby, and discuss these
issues.
I've been able to keep my community aware of how this impacts them. With my group, in
specific, we led a community walk in which we talk to business owners and people on the
street about gun violence and how it affects South LA specifically. I also flew out to
Washington to go to this convention called Gun Sense University in which we saw other
leaders from other chapters talk about their experiences in their community. I got the
chance from my group to fly out to New York City to talk about ways in reducing gun
violence within our own community and get an insight as to how we can do that and get the
support I need to make that possible.
Ana stated that our collective motivation for change should not only start when those we
are closest to are impacted by the issues.
If you don't take a stand or take action, you're probably just going to live in the community
that is susceptible to gun violence, and you might become one of the victims. Until
someone becomes a victim, or you know someone that becomes a victim, that's what drives
people to change, and it shouldn't be that way. That people would want to make change
regardless of where they stand with the issue.
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 110 domestic abuser. He ended up killing himself. I guess it's the easy access to guns. I guess in a way the low standards-- No, restrictions. They're not strict enough to actually help people. While working with Students Demand Action, Ana has flown to the east coast on multiple occasions to continue learning and lobby for gun violence related issues. Ana has also organized local events in her community of South Central to educate, lobby, and discuss these issues. I've been able to keep my community aware of how this impacts them. With my group, in specific, we led a community walk in which we talk to business owners and people on the street about gun violence and how it affects South LA specifically. I also flew out to Washington to go to this convention called Gun Sense University in which we saw other leaders from other chapters talk about their experiences in their community. I got the chance from my group to fly out to New York City to talk about ways in reducing gun violence within our own community and get an insight as to how we can do that and get the support I need to make that possible. Ana stated that our collective motivation for change should not only start when those we are closest to are impacted by the issues. If you don't take a stand or take action, you're probably just going to live in the community that is susceptible to gun violence, and you might become one of the victims. Until someone becomes a victim, or you know someone that becomes a victim, that's what drives people to change, and it shouldn't be that way. That people would want to make change regardless of where they stand with the issue. |
