FROM SILENCE TO RESISTANCE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN ANGIE THOMASS THE HATE U GIVE

This study builds on previous research on Angie Thomass The Hate U Give, which has been extensively examined through the lens of racism, police violence, and the Black Lives Matter movement; however, the connection between residential segregation, racial inequalities, and the protagonists gradual development of critical consciousness remains less explored. From this perspective, the study seeks to answer the question of how racialized spaces and the experience of police brutality contribute to the development of African American critical consciousness. To this end, the analysis draws on the principles of Critical Race Theory and African American literary criticism to examine the relationships between race, power, space, identity, and resistance. The results of the analysis show that these racialized spaces are not merely backdrops but function as mechanisms for the production of political and racial consciousness.