Starr Carter's brave decisions against institutional racism in Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give

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Yanti, Nisa Ritma (2019) Starr Carter's brave decisions against institutional racism in Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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This thesis tries to analyze a novel written by Angie Thomas entitled The Hate U Give and focuses on the main character named Starr Carter. The purpose of this thesis is to know institutional racism that occurs in the novel and the way Starr has to deal with it.The method that used in this study is qualitative research or library research, it means the data are concerned with texts, written words, phrases or symbols. Primary data source of this research is taken from the novel while secondary data sources are taken from articles, journals, websites, and books that relate with this analysis. The collected data are analyzed by applying institutional racism theory in African American literary criticism. Then dealing with the issue, this research also analyzed Starr Carter’s brave decisions against institutional racism in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give. As the result of the analysis it is found that there are five parts of institutional racism portrayed in this novel, those are ignorance toward Black Panthers’ Ten-Point Program, the shooting in license checking, physical punishment in police patrol, justifying White officer in detective investigation, and injustice in grand jury announcement. Furthermore, Starr's brave decisions against institutional racism are telling the truth in a TV interview and joining the protest chant. The conclusions are institutional racism that has been done by police institution toward Black people is inhumane and this experience makes Starr decides to keep fighting to get justice for Black people in America.