THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN SLAVERY AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION PORTRAYED IN THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016) MOVIE

Pratiwi, Ulfa (2021) THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN SLAVERY AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION PORTRAYED IN THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016) MOVIE. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang.

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Abstract

The aim of this study focuses at analyzing the interconnection between slavery and racial discrimination in The Birth of a Nation movie. Several facts and evidence inside the movie have made slavery and racial discrimination as the proper problem for this movie. The object of this study are all black characters in The Birth of a Nation movie. To analyze the object, this study used a descriptive qualitative method. Several steps used to collect the data were watching a movie, reading the movie script, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data. This study finds the slavery and racial discrimination treatment that experienced to the all black characters. Based on the references used in this study, all black character were experienced with slavery. They had been enslaved from generation to generation. Since they was born as a slave. They were forced and exploited their labor by their master. Some slave worked in the fields, planted sugar, tobacco, and cotton, some worked on animal farms, and some worked in their masters' homes to help with the housework. Furthermore, as their consequense to be slaves. They also received racial discrimination treatment by their master. The negative attitude that the blacks were received such as limited their access, harmed till killed. The slave woman got twice burden than man. Beside they were tortured, they also got sexual harassment. They were harassed and raped by white man. Slave’s owner could easily do anything that they want to their slaves. There was no ban to torture till kill the slaves at that time. Keywords: Slavery, Racial Discrimination, Blacks, the Birth of a Nation

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Komunikasi
Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Komunikasi > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Pustakawan 1 UNISSULA
Date Deposited: 19 Jul 2022 01:41
Last Modified: 19 Jul 2022 01:41
URI: http://repository.unissula.ac.id/id/eprint/24567

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