The Hate U Give: Post-Colonial Theory #BlackLivesMatter
As I continue to analyze The Hate U Give with a variety of theories, I uncover so many different perspectives and aspects of the book that I would have never encountered with just passively reading the novel. Angie Thomas’s novel uses the Postcolonial Theory to capture the attention of readers about a very controversial, but important issue. She tackles the issue of police brutality and the continuing racial divide between black and white individuals. She expresses a very dominant message towards the Black Lives Matter movement and the reality of the mistreatment the black community faces. A very big idea of the Postcolonial Theory that heavily applies to The Hate U Give is the concept of cultural hegemony. Cultural hegemony was described by Karl Marx as the idea that a ruling class dominates a culturally diverse society by changing their views and their culture so that their domination becomes culturally accepted. The novel speaks heavily on the domination of ce...