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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 128
the circumstances of oppression. If this was to merely happen in our minds, the structures would
still continue (Kress & Lake, 2013). Fanon (1952/2008; 1963) contextualized the transcendent
nature of critical consciousness cultivated through radical love and manifested in political, social,
physical, and spiritual revolution. It encourages oppressed people to gain liberation through
transcendence of structures, which means that adapting and navigating existing structures is
neither the premise nor goal. Fanon urges that this decolonization processes requires the
colonized to take, rather than accept, the condition of freedom (1952/2008).
The navigation of these systems of oppression are embodied in the participants’ displays
of political behaviors and efficacy. The Black and Latinx youth who participated in the study
worked to liberate themselves from various domains of enclosures while engaging with displays
of resistance. The pursuit of political, social, and spiritual revolutions within individual selves,
social groups, family units, also spilled into school sites, districts, prisons, churches,
neighborhoods, and various other sites of resistance. The participants’ intersectional identities
often forced them to exist in varying states of fugitivity. The more marginalized each participant
was, in terms of their intersectional identities and restricted access to power, the more they were
forced to exist in states of fugitivity. This fugitivity served as the catalyst for them to search for
like-minded collaborators, sites of learning, options and opportunities for furthered anti-state
violence formal and informal education, and sites for healing. Hartman (2018) posits that efforts
at anarchy, mutual aid, and a desire for being ungovernable and unassimilable are tenets that are
ineligible through a Marxist scope, lend themselves to practices of anarchy and mutual aid, and
have been espoused by wayward Black women throughout history. Although the participants are
not all Black women, their lived states of fugitivity are shown in their daily radical acts and stem
out of a need for survival.
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 |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 128 the circumstances of oppression. If this was to merely happen in our minds, the structures would still continue (Kress & Lake, 2013). Fanon (1952/2008; 1963) contextualized the transcendent nature of critical consciousness cultivated through radical love and manifested in political, social, physical, and spiritual revolution. It encourages oppressed people to gain liberation through transcendence of structures, which means that adapting and navigating existing structures is neither the premise nor goal. Fanon urges that this decolonization processes requires the colonized to take, rather than accept, the condition of freedom (1952/2008). The navigation of these systems of oppression are embodied in the participants’ displays of political behaviors and efficacy. The Black and Latinx youth who participated in the study worked to liberate themselves from various domains of enclosures while engaging with displays of resistance. The pursuit of political, social, and spiritual revolutions within individual selves, social groups, family units, also spilled into school sites, districts, prisons, churches, neighborhoods, and various other sites of resistance. The participants’ intersectional identities often forced them to exist in varying states of fugitivity. The more marginalized each participant was, in terms of their intersectional identities and restricted access to power, the more they were forced to exist in states of fugitivity. This fugitivity served as the catalyst for them to search for like-minded collaborators, sites of learning, options and opportunities for furthered anti-state violence formal and informal education, and sites for healing. Hartman (2018) posits that efforts at anarchy, mutual aid, and a desire for being ungovernable and unassimilable are tenets that are ineligible through a Marxist scope, lend themselves to practices of anarchy and mutual aid, and have been espoused by wayward Black women throughout history. Although the participants are not all Black women, their lived states of fugitivity are shown in their daily radical acts and stem out of a need for survival. |
