Kaced, Assia2024-05-262024-05-262023-06-301112-7279E 2676-1556http://ddeposit.univ-alger2.dz/handle/20.500.12387/6364The aim of this article is to analyze the way aggressive policing affects the life of young black people in Thomas Angie's novel, The Hate U Give.(2017) The racial categorization of Black Americans as dangerous or violent criminals threatening the well being of the whites has resulted in a strong belief that they need to be controlled at whatever cost. (Henning,2021; Taylor, 2016 Weissinger et al, 2017). Accordingly, agencies of social control, like the police forces, and the legal system that are supposed to protect the Black community , have become a source of fear and despair, demeaning, humiliating, and killing young black people by virtue of their skin color. Through her female protagonist's experience with police brutality and racism, , Angie Thomas seeks to set the ground for discussion of black people's experience of racial profiling and criminalization. She addresses questions of social inequity, racist law enforcement , and the immunity of the white police. She also aims at celebrating the memories of the young people gone prematurely and tragically.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/Racial profilingPolicingLethal forceMainstream mediaThe Hate U GiveThomas AngieArticle