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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 112
needs to be done about the violence because all the beefs and the reason for the violence,
all that shit started in the '80s, '90s. All of that shit is old and the people that started the
beefs don't even beef no more or don't even gang bang like that anymore. You're all
carrying on a beef just to be carrying it on.
Kevin works with the Gloves Up Guns Down organization to work on settlings beefs
without gun violence. This method of conflict resolution includes discussion, trainings,
exercises, and boxing. Similar to Kevin, Cedric is concerned with gang activity. He dreams of a
new role for gangs in his neighborhood,
If I had a voice, honestly, I wouldn't put a stop to gang banging, but I would change it. I
would want gang bangers to protect the hoods, protect their area instead of killing each
other. I would want gang bangers that protect us from police. If you're going to claim this
is your hood then take care of the hood. Don't kill no innocent African American or don't
kill no innocent person in general just because they got on red shoes or just because they
got a red hat or just because they got on blue shoes or what not.
Shay and Avery both engaged with Black Lives Matter through attending meetings and
engaging in public direction action initiatives. One of these included a protest to remove Los
Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey. Shay recalled,
I went to the Jackie Lacey Must Go rally, and then I also went one official meeting. Both
experiences were great. What they talked about were great. The organizing that they do is
just beyond me.
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 112 needs to be done about the violence because all the beefs and the reason for the violence, all that shit started in the '80s, '90s. All of that shit is old and the people that started the beefs don't even beef no more or don't even gang bang like that anymore. You're all carrying on a beef just to be carrying it on. Kevin works with the Gloves Up Guns Down organization to work on settlings beefs without gun violence. This method of conflict resolution includes discussion, trainings, exercises, and boxing. Similar to Kevin, Cedric is concerned with gang activity. He dreams of a new role for gangs in his neighborhood, If I had a voice, honestly, I wouldn't put a stop to gang banging, but I would change it. I would want gang bangers to protect the hoods, protect their area instead of killing each other. I would want gang bangers that protect us from police. If you're going to claim this is your hood then take care of the hood. Don't kill no innocent African American or don't kill no innocent person in general just because they got on red shoes or just because they got a red hat or just because they got on blue shoes or what not. Shay and Avery both engaged with Black Lives Matter through attending meetings and engaging in public direction action initiatives. One of these included a protest to remove Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey. Shay recalled, I went to the Jackie Lacey Must Go rally, and then I also went one official meeting. Both experiences were great. What they talked about were great. The organizing that they do is just beyond me. |
