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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 120
here. It's not surprising. It is what it is, but we can't be complacent and just let people talk
how they want. I feel like, because people are like this, it's our responsibility to also
protect ourselves.
Shay
Black is black. Black is beautiful. Black is amazing. Respect the blackness or get
out. I feel like people should be able to express themselves with their own identity
regardless if it makes you comfortable or not, and that's on that.
Avery
People in my generation live in the generation of change. A lot of stuff is
happening. All these revolutions are springing up all around the world. I want to
say her last name right. Greta Thunberg, she just got the Time award for most
influential person of the year. I think that really embodies how influential young
people are in these movements, in changing the world. Everyone says, "You are
like the leaders of tomorrow," but we're going to be the revolutionized leaders of
tomorrow. We're going to bring actual change where it needs to be changed and
the decision-makers are going to look like us. They're going to look like people in
South Central. They're going to look like people our high schools because they are
the ones that know what the community needs. They're going to be able to fight
for the community
All participants in the study have a vision for a better world. Although they vary in
approach, scope, and praxis, the participants believed that the consequences of inaction were
more severe and that they are committed to continual resistance in pursuit of a better world.
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 120 here. It's not surprising. It is what it is, but we can't be complacent and just let people talk how they want. I feel like, because people are like this, it's our responsibility to also protect ourselves. Shay Black is black. Black is beautiful. Black is amazing. Respect the blackness or get out. I feel like people should be able to express themselves with their own identity regardless if it makes you comfortable or not, and that's on that. Avery People in my generation live in the generation of change. A lot of stuff is happening. All these revolutions are springing up all around the world. I want to say her last name right. Greta Thunberg, she just got the Time award for most influential person of the year. I think that really embodies how influential young people are in these movements, in changing the world. Everyone says, "You are like the leaders of tomorrow," but we're going to be the revolutionized leaders of tomorrow. We're going to bring actual change where it needs to be changed and the decision-makers are going to look like us. They're going to look like people in South Central. They're going to look like people our high schools because they are the ones that know what the community needs. They're going to be able to fight for the community All participants in the study have a vision for a better world. Although they vary in approach, scope, and praxis, the participants believed that the consequences of inaction were more severe and that they are committed to continual resistance in pursuit of a better world. |
