The Hate U Give: Journal Articles

On 1 January 2009, Oscar Grant was shot and killed in a subway station by Bay Area Rail Transit officers. This event was recorded by several passengers on their cellphones and later uploaded to the video-sharing website YouTube. The videos generated significant protests among online and offline communities, and were eventually used as evidence in the ensuing trial. This study employed a critical thematic analysis to examine audience responses to this act of citizen journalism on YouTube. Results indicated that although some viewers critiqued the video quality and the cameraperson’s passivity, several supportive comments praised the cameraperson’s presence of mind and courage. Furthermore, some viewers called for resistance and retaliation, while others advocated a more prudent response. We argue that these findings necessitate a reconceptualization of traditional notions of the guard-dog media and the public sphere to accommodate new media technologies.

"Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give (2017) has ignited a cultural firestorm in the often minimized, but increasingly important, young-adult fiction genre. After witnessing the tragic death of her friend Khalil in a police shooting, 16-year-old Starr speaks eloquently as the book's narrator about her many conflicting feelings: “I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down. Now I am that person, and I'm too afraid to speak.”'

"Given the insidious and often subtle way in which race and racism operate, it is imperative that educational researchers explore the role of race when examining the educational experiences of African-American students. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a useful perspective from which to explore such phenomena. In this article, the authors illustrate how CRT can be used to examine the experiences of African-American students. They use the counterstories of African-American students at Wells Academy, an elite, predominately White, independent school."

"Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it The Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter. — Legal scholar Patricia J. Williams comments on this phenomenon with regard to Columbine shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, young white men who, even after committing mass murder, left the media and the predominantly white community of Littleton, Colorado in disbelief: “Still their teachers and classmates continue to protest that they were good kids, good students, solid citizens. In these recent examples, we see the insidious echoes of nineteenth-century racial science, how white adolescence is perceived as a developmental stage on the way to the “higher and more completely human traits” (in the words of G. Stanley Hall), while black adolescence is constructed as developmentally stagnant, with no projected arrival point for personhood or civic participation. To explore this question, this essay considers two celebrated young adult novels by African American authors, Walter Dean Myers’s Monster (1999) and Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give (2017)."

"In this article I use Angie Thomas's popular young-adult novel The Hate U Give as a lens through which to explore how young adult fiction, produced by African American writers, can serve to facilitate social activism and change."

"Angie Thomas wrote the wonderful book by the same name, The Hate U Give, which was about an African American teenage girl dealing with straddling the Black/White world, witnessing her childhood friend gunned down by police, and dealing with violent gang activity threatening her family.1 Angie Thomas has interpreted the phrase to mean: “What society feeds into youth has a way of coming back and affecting us all.”'

"The paper offers an imagological analysis of Thomas’s debut novel The Hate U Give (2017) with the aim of showing that the cultural image of the Black race is a firmly rooted construct in the United States. The analysis is based on the ideas proposed by Benedict Anderson in his Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (2006) and suggests that despite the well-established theoretical ideas of American-ness and the greatness of the American nation, there is no single nation to speak of in the US society."

"Police shootings of unarmed young men and wrongful convictions of innocent young men have led to the "Black Lives Matter" movement and a recent outpouring of movies of protest by African American moviemakers."