Racism Reflected In The Hate U Give (2017)By Angie Thomas: A Critical Race Theory

This research is the study about racism that appears in The Hate U Give novel (2017) by Angie Thomas. This novel tells about racism and discrimination which done by the white people as majority towards the black people as minority. This research paper is aimed to analyze the racism that reflected in The Hate U Give novel. This type of research is qualitative descriptive, while the technique of analyzing data is a descriptive technique. In this research, the researcher use critical race theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (2001). After the data analysis, the researcher finds that there are indicators of racism in The Hate U Give Novel and describe how racism happened in the novel based on critical race theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. This research has several conclusions: 1) Unfair treatment and discrimination experienced by the black people. 2) The black people always blamed just because they are black and considered as bad and evil in society.