Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of Spring 2019 Humanity in the Black: Applying Counter-Racist Logic with Comedy and Hip Hop Marion Pugh Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd Part of the Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, and the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education Commons Recommended Citation Pugh, Marion, "Humanity in the Black: Applying Counter-Racist Logic with Comedy and Hip Hop" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1922. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1922 This dissertation (open access) is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies, Jack N. Averitt College of at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. HUMANITY IN THE BLACK: APPLYING COUNTER-RACIST LOGIC WITH COMEDY AND HIP HOP by MARION CHRISTOPHER PUGH (Under the Direction of John Weaver) ABSTRACT Humanity in the Black explores the theoretical framework of Counter-Racist Logic created by Neely Fuller Jr. as a defense mechanism for humans politically classified as black. The purpose of this dissertation is to display how Counter-Racist Logic can eliminate the cancerous confusion caused by the social construct of race. Humans who have been assigned to the racial category of black will be able to courageously acknowledge the social construct of race, acknowledge the effects of identifying with a description of a race, and how to use logic to counter the religious white superiority belief system (Fuller, 2016).