Acts of Racial Discrimination to The Blacks as Seen in Stockett's The Help

This Study aims to determine the Actions of Racial Discrimination committed by White People against Black people in The Help. This research used qualitative method, in terms of using words or text. In conducting this research, the data are collected from primary and secondary sources. The primary source or the main source is the novel entitled The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett. The second sources are some related books and articles from the internet, that are supporting this research. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Mimetic Approach by Abrams. The result of this study is presented descriptively. As the results of this research, the researcher found that there are many actions of Racial Discrimination reflected in The Help. It can be seen in some several sections. First, there is a Discriminatory Law namely Jim Crow Law of the Southern United State. Second, the Discriminatory Stereotypes that the White People created about the Black People such as, Blacks are dirty, Black People are thieves, Black People as diseases, and Black People are dumb. And the last is the Discrimination in Public Services, that can be found in residential area, library, education, health service, voting, and public transportation.

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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AS SEEN IN STOCKETT’S THE HELP

Journal of English Language and Literature Teaching ◽

10.36412/jellt.v5i1.2437 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nilia R. Menggalomo ◽

Elizabeth Z. Oroh ◽

Agustine C. Mamentu

Keyword(s):

Racial Discrimination ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Human Life ◽

Primary Source ◽

Equal Treatment ◽

The Novel ◽

White Race ◽

Black Race ◽

Black And White ◽

Secondary Sources

ABSTRACT: This study aims to reveal about racial discrimination from White race to Black race as seen in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, by applying qualitative research in which the data are gathered in the form of words and quotation from the novel, internet and other books to substantiate the research. The writers collect the data using two kind of sources, primary and the secondary sources. Primary source is taken from the novel itself and the secondary sources are taken from books internet and other relevant data. In analyzing the data, the writers are using mimetic apporoach which is an imitation, reflection, or representation of Human life. The result of this research shows how the racial discrimination occurs in South America particularly in Jackson, Mississipi. This novel represents how the situation back then in the era of jim crow law, where all of the aspect and accomodation in both black and white are separated for equality but it does not shows the equal treatment for black race. Instead the long preception of black race is inferior and dirty, it costs trauma, poverty, death, for black race. They are still receives all of those bad treats even after all of those suffers and hard-working. Also even when they have to serve the white race and fight for they own freedom. They have to fight against the rules that stand to torture them back then. Keywords: The Help, Discrimination, Black race, White race

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THE ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SOLOMON NORTHUP’S 12 YEARS A SLAVE

LINGUISTICA ◽

10.24114/ling.v7i1.9191 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sarmita Utami Harahap And Fauziah Khairani Lubis

Keyword(s):

Racial Discrimination ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Black People ◽

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

The research was focused on racial discrimination faced by the major characters and their resistances in 12 Years A Slave novel. This study was aimed This study was aimed to investigate the racial disrimination and the resistances in the novel. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The source of data was taken from 12 Years A Slave novel. The data are collected by using documentary techniques. Instrument for collecting the data is using documentary sheet. The results of this research were the racial discrimination and resistances happened in 12 Years A Slave. The racial discrimination in this novel happened towards the Black People and all discriminated people do the resistances to make their life better. As Northup is the main character so he got the most discrimination, then in the second position is Patsey and the last is Eliza Berry. Meanwhile the resistances done the most by Northup until he finally got freedom, and Patsey also did it twice and Eliza Berry did it three times. It can be concluded that the three major character who are slaves got discriminated and they did the resistances to save their life, even its only Northup who got the freedom in the end.

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THE ANALYSIS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SOLOMON NORTHUP’S 12 YEARS A SLAVE

LINGUISTICA ◽

10.24114/jalu.v7i1.9191 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sarmita Utami Harahap And Fauziah Khairani Lubis

Keyword(s):

Racial Discrimination ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Black People ◽

The Novel ◽

Main Character ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

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STATE OF EXCEPTION THROUGH RASISME IN GO SET A WATCHMAN IN AGAMBEN’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Bahtera Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra ◽

10.21009/bahtera.202.01 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 123-134

Author(s):

Damay Rahmawati ◽

Ramadhani Ardianto Karsa Sunaryono ◽

Mira Utami

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Racial Discrimination ◽

Black People ◽

Lower Class ◽

State Of Exception ◽

The Novel ◽

Citizenship Rights ◽

American Society ◽

The Impact ◽

Harper Lee

This study aims to see racism in the novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee as state of exception; a political philosophy of Agamben. Agamben's idea of state of exception is used in this study as the theoretical framework. This research specifically reveals how racism becomes part of state of exception in American society around 1960s when the novel was written. The analysis focuses on issues of racism in American society as depicted in the novel. The issue of racism is taken with the aim of analyzing state of exception in USA, in dealing with racial discrimination. After analyzing the issues of racism and state of exception in the novel, this study reveals that racism in American society is politically structured. The finding of this study is the discrimination experienced by lower class citizens who are dominated by black people, as the impact of state of exception which affects their citizenship rights.

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Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues

Twentieth Century Literature ◽

10.1215/0041462x-7852053 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 191-216

Author(s):

Mark A. Tabone

Keyword(s):

Black People ◽

Jim Crow ◽

The Novel ◽

American Slavery ◽

The Holocaust ◽

History Of ◽

Racialized Violence ◽

American Author ◽

Black Queer ◽

Multidirectional Memory

This article focuses on the representation of history in African American author John A. Williams’s 1999 novel, Clifford’s Blues, a fictional account of a Black, queer American expatriate’s internment and enslavement in a Nazi concentration camp. Through a critical perspective that incorporates the imaginative recovery of (often silenced) history that Toni Morrison (1987) called “rememory,” along with what Holocaust scholar Michael Rothberg (2009) calls “multidirectional memory,” this article details Williams’s daring exploration of spaces of overlap between the histories of American slavery, Jim Crow, and the Nazi Holocaust. The article demonstrates how the novel’s unconventional and controversial emplotment allows Williams to create a distinctive historical critique not only of slavery and the Holocaust but, more broadly, of otherization, racialized violence, and modernity itself, while making a number of historiographic interventions. These include inscribing a largely absent history of the experience of Black people affected by the Holocaust and the mapping of theretofore underacknowledged resonances between American and German ideologies and practices. Through its transnational, transcultural “multidirectionality,” the novel opens up a broad, structural critique of apartheid everywhere; however, this article also argues that the novel also offers models for liberatory communities of resistance. The article demonstrates how Williams accomplishes this through his novel’s allegorical and literal use of the blues.

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MORAL VALUES ANALYSIS IN THE FAULT IN OUR STARS NOVEL BY JOHN GREEN

Linguistics and Literature Journal ◽

10.33365/llj.v1i2.302 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 55-61

Author(s):

Muhammad Yusril Ihza Mahendra ◽

Dina Amelia

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Method ◽

Real Life ◽

Primary Source ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Moral Values ◽

The Novel ◽

Moral Value ◽

Personal Lives ◽

A Value ◽

Living Things

Moral Value is a value that affects individual and social behavior in behaving. The current study aimedto find the categories of moral values that John Green tries to convey in The Fault in Our Stars noveland to interpret its meaning by using the theory of Universal Moral Values by Kinnier et. al with fourmajor moral values. To be able to understand moral values in the story without misinterpretation andthe lessons can be applied in real life. This study used the qualitative method because it focuses ondescribing and interpreting the moral values in descriptive. The primary source of data is taken fromthe novel The Fault in Our Stars in the form of narrations and the secondary data is from previousstudies in the form of statements that comes from the study findings. The results of the current studyshow that the categories of moral values found in the novel are (1) Commitment to something greaterthan oneself, (2) Self-respect, but with humility, self-discipline, and acceptance of personalresponsibility, and (3) Respect and caring for others, while the moral value that is not found is (4)Caring for other living things and environment which indicates that John Green inserted moral valuesin the novel more about the personal lives of the characters and the relationships between them, whichto civilize it, readers, to have the moral as an individual, being good to other people and to believe tosomething greater.

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A Du Boisian Reading of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.60.121 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 60 ◽

pp. 121-127

Author(s):

Sediqeh Hosseiny ◽

Ensieh Shabanirad

Keyword(s):

Toni Morrison ◽

Black People ◽

The Other ◽

Double Consciousness ◽

The Novel ◽

White People ◽

African American Culture ◽

Bluest Eye ◽

Black Characters ◽

Different Types

Due to the color of their skins, Blacks were always subject to different types of disrespect and insecurity in their society. Among different groups of people, writers and critics knew it as their responsibility to act as Black people’s voice and talk on behalf of them, as these people were labeled as ‘The Other’ by the Whites. Du Bios created a kind of new trend of dealing with African-American culture by innovating the concept known as “double consciousness”, and arguing that these black people were trapped between dual personalities. As an American writer, Toni Morrison carried this specific burden upon her shoulders to reveal all those oppressions Blacks had to bear in their life, like what she depicted in the novel The Bluest Eyewith portrayal of the main black character Pecolla who is being blamed for the color of her skin. This article intends to elaborate some inherent postcolonial traces in Toni Morrison’s outstanding novel The Bluest Eye and examine how European power and white people were dominating the whole system of the society and what kind of regretful complications Blacks had to endure, and at the same time working on how Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness can be analyzed in black characters.

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THE ABORTION‘S ACT AMONG BLACK AMERICAN IN THE UNITEDSTATES

Journal Ilmu Sosial, Politik dan Pemerintahan ◽

10.37304/jispar.v1i2.350 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Merissa Octora

Keyword(s):

Racial Discrimination ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Black People ◽

The United States ◽

Black American ◽

White American ◽

Library Research ◽

History Of ◽

Descriptive Method

This research focuses on the act of abortion among Black People in the United States based on history, the society environment, and two big major issues regarding the abortion act such as Roe vs Wade, and Pro Choice - Pro Life. Black people become the central point on this research because the fact shows that the largest population which do the abortion act and mostly considered as Black American in the first plce and the second one is from Hispanic American rather than any other minority groups or even the White American itself and this happened based on the history of racial discrimination or segregation toward BlackPeople. This research uses library research in term of qualitative method, and applying descriptive method in analyzing the data. The approaches which are used in this research are the approaches which have a great related with the society and social problem. This approaches well known with the term of interdispliner study which have main purpose to elaborate many perspectives to become primarysources. The different treatment toward Black People based on racial discrimination experienced becomes the trigger why do Black People placed the highest number in doing abortion act in the UnitedStates.

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Narrative Voice Structure in Kole Omotoso’s The Edifice

International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ◽

10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.10n.4p.100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 100

Author(s):

Raifu O. Farinde ◽

Wasiu A. Oyedokun-Alli

Keyword(s):

Racial Discrimination ◽

Black People ◽

Analytical Tool ◽

Present Writer ◽

The Novel ◽

Conversational Speech ◽

Narrative Voice ◽

Direct Speech ◽

Discrimination And Oppression ◽

The One

This article offers a reading of Kole Omotoso’s The Edifice in which he exposes the themes of insensitivity, callousness, aggressiveness, oppression, marginalization and racial discrimination of the whites against the black people successfully. It is clear that the most important and highly unique technique that the writer uses to advantage and which projects the theme of the novel forward is the one of conversational speech which contributes highly to the success of the novel. This explains the reason the present writer is picking the novel out of all Omotoso’s novels because it makes it more prone to linguistic analysis more than most African literary works. Using linguistic stylistic analytical tool of narrative voice structure and focusing particularly on free direct speech and free direct thought, this paper examines the themes of racial discrimination and oppression of the whites against the black people in the novel. From the analysis, the paper concludes that the implication of this racial discrimination is that all the expressions used in the novel against the black people by the whites are exaggerated, hyperbolic and highly calculated to depict African race in bad light.

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Construction of American Hunger in Richard Wright's Novel "Black Boy"

Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies ◽

10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.29289 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 38-50

Author(s):

Febrian Ramadhani Setiaji ◽

Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Binary Operation ◽

Black People ◽

The Novel ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

White People ◽

Black And White ◽

Black Boy

This study aims at explaining the construction of American hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy. This study is a qualitative analysis that relies on the power of word or explanatory reasoning. The data were collected by reading, identifying, classifying and analyzed using the structualism theories which used in this study by relating to binary operation to see the gap between black and white society. The results of this study were the segregation between black and white people in terms of the treatment, power, and superiority that in the end, it resulted that the black people are being treated different and has no right for freedom. The American Hunger is described in the novel through some events that go in the opposite between black and white people. The tention between them revealed from the different treatment, oppression, discrimination, superiority, and hunger that the black and white people or society experienced. The dominance and the power of the white people had harm the black people in some aspects in their life. Second, American Hunger that was described in the novel was regarded as the desire of the black people when they were living side by side with the white people in America. When the discrimination, segregation, and oppression occurs toward the black people, they satisfied their American hunger by standing agaisnt racial oppression, strengthen the superiority, and against the hunger. Keywords: American hunger; construction; discrimination; structuralism

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