In the wake of KhalilвЂ™s death, Starr no longer thinks about Blackness as an abstract concept that sheвЂ™s exempted from because of the school she attends and the friends sheвЂ™s made. Slick comments from her white friends are harder to get over. Suddenly, microaggressions are more difficult to ignore. Being the sole witness to KhalilвЂ™s shooting also pushes the feelings sheвЂ™s been suppressing to the surface. As a result, Starr is left to deal with a deeply traumatic event without a reliable school support system. Though her boyfriend Chris (KJ Apa) and best friends Hailey (Sabrina Carpenter) and Maya (Megan Lawless) know that something has changed, she finds it difficult to confide in them because she believes theyвЂ™ll perceive her differently if they know where sheвЂ™s from and what sheвЂ™s witnessed. In the aftermath of the shooting, Starr struggles to hide the trauma and fear sheвЂ™s feeling from her social circle at Williamson. In other words, Black boys are socially rewarded for confirming or reinforcing problematic stereotypes about Blackness while Black girls are harshly punished.

For Black girls, however, fitting in is much more difficult because theyвЂ™re positioned as loud, aggressive, and unapproachable, leading to increased, disparate disciplinary actions, including a suspension rate thatвЂ™s six times that of their white female peers. A 2013 study published in the Sociology of Education found that Black boys who attend white suburban schools have an easier time fitting in due to вЂњpositiveвЂќ associations with their athletic skill and presupposed вЂњcoolness.вЂќ While those assumptions are reductive and limiting, they provide an avenue for integration. The social consequences Starr fears are real, and for her, assimilation is a survival tactic.

When she goes to Williamson, the markers of her Blackness are stripped away and she begins code-switching because вЂњWilliamson Starr doesnвЂ™t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto.вЂќ Being stereotyped as the вЂњangry Black girlвЂќ isnвЂ™t a petty or trivial concern. Until KhalilвЂ™s death, StarrвЂ™s life has been marked by a strict dichotomy between the low-income and predominantly Black Garden Heights neighborhood that she calls home, and Williamson, the upper-middle class, predominantly white prep school that she and her brothers attend. The Hate U Give, based on Angie ThomasвЂ™s bestselling young-adult novel, examines StarrвЂ™s relationship to Blackness after she witnesses the police-involved death of her childhood friend Khalil (Algee Smith). Du Bois describes вЂњdouble consciousnessвЂќ as the difficulty of вЂњalways looking at oneвЂ™s self through the eyes of a racist white society and measuring oneself by the means of a nation that looked back in contempt.вЂќ ItвЂ™s the principle that guides The Hate U GiveвЂ™s Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) until a tragedy merges her two worlds.

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