Stereotypical and Racial Discursive Representations of Black People: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Memoir Chasing Me to My Grave (2021)

Abstract

This study is a critical discourse analysis of the Memoir Chasing Me to My Grave (2021) for racial trauma and mass incarceration as a result of racism by the superior White people. People of color have long been exploited, traumatized and subjugated either in the form of slavery in the past or now in the form of trauma leading to incarceration or psychological complexes of inferiority. Through Norman Faircloug's Critical Discourse Analysis, the data has been examined for Whites' ideologically unconscious and constructed opinions toward blacks. Martinez's (2014) Critical Race Theory as well as Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic's Critical Race Theory is used as a theoretical and analytical framework to analyze how negatively black people are portrayed in various discourses. It explains how numerous organizations operate against the black race and how they are using prejudicial ideologies against them to exploit and traumatized them. The issues showcased by the study will be a source for bringing such inhumane acts and behavior to the front and help put a stop to the further evolution of racism in the society.