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SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 132
The socio-emotional toll of student activists and organizers in high school is
needed to ensure that we continually try to generate practices of healing, radical self-care, and
growth that are applicable and useful to Black and Latinx youth. This study was conducted
directly before the COVID-19 global health crisis. Many countries around the world were and
are still engaged in practices of quarantine where communities of color and more specifically
Black communities have been disproportionately affected. During this time, we have also
witnessed national rebellions in response to the continued murder of Black lives by the state.
Student activists have continued to organize, call for the abolition of the police, and resist these
actions. All of this has taken place in a polarized election year. Future research will need to
grapple with what all of this means, how schools and districts respond, and how these events
converge and shape the critical consciousness and political efficacy of Black and Latinx students.
Conclusion
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of Black and Latinx youth
regarding the relationship between their critical consciousness development (Anzaldua, 1987;
Baldwin, 1963b; Fanon, 1952/2008; Hartman, 2018; Horton & Friere, 1970/2000) and their
political efficacy (Campbel, 1954; Ginwright 2002; Williams, Myers, Hill, & Ratliff, 2013). The
academic literature has predominately focused on critical consciousness as solely theorized by
Freire, recognized political efficacy primarily through metrics of civic engagement and voting,
and has not examined the relationship between critical consciousness and political efficacy. The
study also investigated systems of power that converge to shape the formal and informal
educational experience of the participants. In this qualitative study, I utilized a phenomenological
process to capture participant what and how the participants experienced their critical
consciousness and political efficacy (Patton, 2002). I interviewed eight Black and Latinx youth
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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| Type | texts |
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| Rights | Rodgers, Kenneth W., Jr. |
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| Full text | SUBVERTING STATE VIOLENCE 132 The socio-emotional toll of student activists and organizers in high school is needed to ensure that we continually try to generate practices of healing, radical self-care, and growth that are applicable and useful to Black and Latinx youth. This study was conducted directly before the COVID-19 global health crisis. Many countries around the world were and are still engaged in practices of quarantine where communities of color and more specifically Black communities have been disproportionately affected. During this time, we have also witnessed national rebellions in response to the continued murder of Black lives by the state. Student activists have continued to organize, call for the abolition of the police, and resist these actions. All of this has taken place in a polarized election year. Future research will need to grapple with what all of this means, how schools and districts respond, and how these events converge and shape the critical consciousness and political efficacy of Black and Latinx students. Conclusion The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of Black and Latinx youth regarding the relationship between their critical consciousness development (Anzaldua, 1987; Baldwin, 1963b; Fanon, 1952/2008; Hartman, 2018; Horton & Friere, 1970/2000) and their political efficacy (Campbel, 1954; Ginwright 2002; Williams, Myers, Hill, & Ratliff, 2013). The academic literature has predominately focused on critical consciousness as solely theorized by Freire, recognized political efficacy primarily through metrics of civic engagement and voting, and has not examined the relationship between critical consciousness and political efficacy. The study also investigated systems of power that converge to shape the formal and informal educational experience of the participants. In this qualitative study, I utilized a phenomenological process to capture participant what and how the participants experienced their critical consciousness and political efficacy (Patton, 2002). I interviewed eight Black and Latinx youth |
