Page 135 |
Save page Remove page | Previous | 135 of 162 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
Large (1000x1000 max)
Extra Large
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
All (PDF)
|
This page
All
|
SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 124
to reconcile their categorical multiplicity. Diversity Within (Hancock, 2012) helps to make sense
of the participant’s differing subgroups and political agendas, while exposing power
relationships in American politics. This helps to explain why some participants have more of a
belief in the significance and impact of electoral politics as a vehicle for social change and why
other participants acknowledge that voting in electoral politics may matter in the short term but
advocate complete dismantling of the political system and the creation of something new.
Hancock (2012) states that individual-institutional interactions position race, gender, class, and
sexual orientation as constructs carried out at individual, group, and institutional/systemic levels.
The participants have both intentionally and unintentionally exposed power dynamics in the
homes, educational institutions, work spaces, and in their social circles. This has been in
opposition to the continued wielding of power attained through socially constructed norms that
are reinforced across various mediums and in many enclosures.
Intersectionality can resist neoliberalism when coupled with participatory democracy as a
means of problem-solving, praxis, and activism (Collins, 2017). Collin’s (2017) Matrix of
Domination Framework examines the relationship between intersecting systems of power,
domination, and political resistance. This framework provide space for the coexistence of
domination and resistance. Political theory and domination are historically constituted through
many ideologies including colonialism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, nationalism,
and racism. The political efficacy of the participants against the systems and institutions that
maintain oppression also serve as resistance efforts against the ideologies that replicate within
systems over time. One stark example of this dynamic is shown in the fact that all of the Latinx
students are first generation immigrants, some with undocumented family members, and the
parental assimilatory practices into the American project cause ripple effects throughout the
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. |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume13/etd-RodgersKen-8903.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 135 |
| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 124 to reconcile their categorical multiplicity. Diversity Within (Hancock, 2012) helps to make sense of the participant’s differing subgroups and political agendas, while exposing power relationships in American politics. This helps to explain why some participants have more of a belief in the significance and impact of electoral politics as a vehicle for social change and why other participants acknowledge that voting in electoral politics may matter in the short term but advocate complete dismantling of the political system and the creation of something new. Hancock (2012) states that individual-institutional interactions position race, gender, class, and sexual orientation as constructs carried out at individual, group, and institutional/systemic levels. The participants have both intentionally and unintentionally exposed power dynamics in the homes, educational institutions, work spaces, and in their social circles. This has been in opposition to the continued wielding of power attained through socially constructed norms that are reinforced across various mediums and in many enclosures. Intersectionality can resist neoliberalism when coupled with participatory democracy as a means of problem-solving, praxis, and activism (Collins, 2017). Collin’s (2017) Matrix of Domination Framework examines the relationship between intersecting systems of power, domination, and political resistance. This framework provide space for the coexistence of domination and resistance. Political theory and domination are historically constituted through many ideologies including colonialism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, and racism. The political efficacy of the participants against the systems and institutions that maintain oppression also serve as resistance efforts against the ideologies that replicate within systems over time. One stark example of this dynamic is shown in the fact that all of the Latinx students are first generation immigrants, some with undocumented family members, and the parental assimilatory practices into the American project cause ripple effects throughout the |
