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Adopting The Black Radical Perspective:

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Adopting The Black Radical Perspective:

[Thesis]

Brown, Taurean Reed

An Analysis of Autobiographical Accounts

Longo, Stefano;Ebert, Kimberly;Schwalbe, Michael

North Carolina State University

2020

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M.Sc.

North Carolina State University

2020

Throughout modern U.S. history challenging the system of capitalism on its ability to create freedom, justice, and equality comes with dangerous consequences. Sociologists have long been interested in how people mitigate consequences when their behavior is perceived as offensive or abnormal. Symbolic interactionist scholars suggest that accounts are a way for people to justify or excuse their actions. Accounts allow people to shift the meanings attached to their behavior, which in turn changes how people react to it. This study focuses on a population that's largely overlooked by sociological research on accounts. Black radicals have a political perspective that says the injustice, inequality, and discrimination Black people experience is a product of the very structure of U.S. society, particularly capitalism. I examine the autobiographical accounts of Black radical activists who ascribe to such a worldview. Through telling their experiences with racism, Black radicals shift the meaning of their politics as being extreme and irrational to being reasonable and acceptable. This research corroborates theory and findings on how people use accounts to shift the meaning attached to things, and how cultural environments shape these accounts. It also demonstrates the value in studying Black radicals as individual actors.

Autobiographical accounts

Black radical activists

Sociology

Symbolic interactionist scholars

Brown, Taurean Reed

Longo, Stefano

Ebert, Kimberly

Schwalbe, Michael

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[Thesis]

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