The Controversy Of Nathan Mccall Essay - 2081 Words

In the late 1960s, Nathan McCall was a smart young African-American living in an all black neighborhood called Manor Cavalier, located in Portsmouth, Virginia. McCall was one of the five young children being raised by his mother and stepfather. First of all, he had two older brothers named Dwight, and then there was Billy, followed by McCall himself, a younger brother Bryan Keith and eventually a stepbrother named Junnie. In a family there is always that person that loves to absorb knowledge; that person was Nathan the one that enjoyed school and books. However, being surrounded by bad influences, living in a bad neighborhood and not to mention living in a time of racism affected his motivation to succeed in the future. The purpose of this essay is that it will demonstrate that someone being labeled as something they are not will affect that person’s future life. Using the labeling theory, the paper will explain that being insulted, humiliated and treated less than a person ca n lead a youngster to become an aggressive and careless child. Therefore, strategies that will help these youngsters to overcome these racial abuses and false libeling’s are by giving equal opportunities and treatments to anyone, no mater of their past mistakes when they simply want to adjust back to society. In the 1950s, Edwin Lemert was the first theorist to bring about the labeling theory with an explanation of a primary and secondary deviance. However, Lemert did not study and did not consider