RACIAL OPPRESSION TOWARDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVES IN JOH KORTY™S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN MOVIE

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  • NASRUN JUHAIDI Universitas Negeri Medan
  • SRI MINDA MURNI Universitas Negeri Medan

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https://doi.org/10.24114/genre.v10i4.36080

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to find out 1) To investigate and explain the types of racial oppression
occurred in the movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and 2) To describe how the characters
resisted the racial discrimination aimed to them in the movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman. The data are analyzed in descriptive qualitative approach. The data of this research were
from the utterance of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman movie characters. The data were taken
from all the utterances, including monologues, dialogues, and narrations from the script which is
already transcripted from the movie. The result of this research showed that 1) there are four types of
oppressions that happened in the movie, namely: Exploitation with a total number of 2 utterances
(6.7%), Marginalization with a total number of 10 utterances (33.3%), Powerlessness with a total
number of 6 utterances (20%), and violence with a total number of 12 utterances (40%). 2) There are
three types of resistance that are used by the characters, namely: Acquiescence with a total number of
5 utterances (31.25%), violence resistance with a total number of 4 utterances (25%), Non-Violence
Resistance with a total number of 7 utterances (43.75%),

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2022-06-27

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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)

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