Date of Award
1-26-2016
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Psychology
Keywords
African-American, Black, Case Study, Ferguson, Police, Qualitative
Supervisor
Towson, Shelagh
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
The Ferguson Uprising was ignited by the August 2014 police killing of a Black teen in a St. Louis, Missouri suburb. In order to understand the Uprising, a community case study method is utilized which combines an analysis of the historical, political and economic context of Ferguson and North St. Louis County with an interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews with 10 Ferguson area residents who participated in the Uprising. The study began by asking why such a militant uprising occurred in Ferguson. Through a reflexive process the study expanded to ask questions about the meanings community members held of the uprising and life in its aftermath. A series of meta-narratives tell the collective story of the participants. Through the combination of methods, a story emerges which demonstrates the racism, greed, and violence of the local bourgeois power elite and the stubborn resistance of ordinary people to this corrupting power.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Brent Patrick, ""that was the day them folks was like, we ain't afraid no more" A Community Case Study of the Ferguson Uprising" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5670.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5670