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INTRODUCTION
objective of the research, significance of the research, scope of the research, and
definition of terms.
1.1 Background
In human life, views and evaluations of humans are traits that already exist
in humans themselves, whether it's good or bad, and we often encounter these
actions without realizing it, especially racist actions. Racism is an act that
demeans someone based on different views about something they believe in such
as differences in identity, race, skin color who are minorities in an area and
another based on a difference. So that other parties experience social injustice and
receive bad treatment. Racist incidents occur in various areas of social life,
organizations. This is in line with what is defined by Van Dijk (2009) that racism
Movie is a series of motion pictures recorded with sound that tell a story,
featured in the movie Hornby (2006). Movie is a type of visual media that is
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and an information medium that is able to make the audience feel the message
reality, so that movie media plays an important role for society to form a good
was shown in Harriet movie, racism is very clearly illustrated against the black
the story of Harriet Tubman's struggle. The movie is based on the true story of
Ara Minta Ross's life journey, where Ross is a former slave woman and activist
against slavery in the United States. The determination of a woman who fights for
her own freedom and that of her people, a movie that contains a moral message
and can be an inspiration for those who watch it, especially on racist acts, has
white and black ethnicity regarding racist behavior in various aspects of life.
Words, images and text are woven together to create racist discourse in media
works such as those in Harriet movie. This study was analyzed using the racist
discourse approach proposed by Van Dijk (1993) to see how individuals engage in
racist behavior, which will be analyzed using the five components of racist
difference: race and ethnicity, white racism, and social practices and social
cognitions.
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Van Dijk (1993). On the other hand, this research is important because acts of
racism are still rampant in society. So the researcher hopes that this research can
be useful for readers and can make readers aware of the losses caused by acts of
From several previous research, there are several things that are similar,
and there are also some things that are different from the research that the
researcher did. The research object use in this research was the Harriet movie ,
while several researchers previously discussed other objects, such as in the first
Deani Prionazvi Rhizky (2020). This research uses the critical discourse analysis
Mahbub (2015). This research uses Teun Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis
in-depth and explicit research is needed regarding the racism contained in Harriet
movie.
The reason the researcher chose Harriet's movie was because when the
researcher conducted an in-depth review with other movies, the researcher found
more racist elements related to what was described by Van Dijk (1993) so that the
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data the researcher needed was easier to obtain. The researcher also understands
the plot in this movie better compared to other movies that have been reviewed
previously. Also, this movie has not been studied in terms of racist discourse by
more to discriminatory social behavior that appears in the form of writing, speech,
lead to acts of racism as Groubs, Power and Domination, Differences: Race and
Ethnicity, White racism, and Social practices and social cognition by Van Dijk
(1993).
describe the racist discourse in the Harriet movie, based on the research question.
power and dominance, differences: race and ethnicity, white racism, and social
practices and social cognition that appear in the Harriet movie, by examining
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various aspects of gestures, body language, and speech made by the characters in
the movie. This essay seeks to expose the racism present in several of Harriet
more pertinent.
1. Theoretical Significance:
as a grand theory.
2. Practical Significance:
that it can assist future researchers in analyzing Harriet movie and help
b) The researcher also hopes that this research can be useful for other
Dijk(1993).
LITERATURE REVIEW
speakers in a social and political context enforce, produce, and oppose and
challenge the abuse of social power, domination, and inequality (Dijk, 2008).
defined CDA as a critical analysis that seeks to expose the role of discursive
practices in the upkeep of social reality, which contains uneven power relations,
and seeks to help change them so that they become more equal in the
communication process and society at large. These analyses not only investigate
social "narrative" discourses at work in inquiry but also go into the motivations
Discourse analysis plays an important ethical and political role in explaining how
aspects of the social world and showing how they came to be, how they can be
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"into a set of rules that allow them to form as objects of discourse and thereby
"common sense." The importance of ideas, facts, and knowledge changing with
Most people do not associate racism with the concept of discourse. Racism
responsible for the most significant aspects and decisions that affect immigrants
welfare, health care, knowledge, and culture. Thus, elite speech can be an
communications are the main media through which ethnic prejudices that underlie
and speech play an important role in the spread of modern racism, especially elite
racism, which is the most dangerous type of modern racism. Elites mostly speak
among many other places. It is a kind of verbal discrimination, like other social
practices targeting minorities, that lies at the heart of other verbal and social
2.2.1 Racism
all over the world, not just in the United States. Individuals from other countries
also often intimidate and discriminate against groups they perceive as lower than
them (Liliweri 2018). The history of slavery in the United States took place
between the 18th and 19th centuries, and according to Marger (in Axanta and
Purba, 2019), it was during this time that racism first emerged because of the
perception that black, ethnic, and racial groups were on a higher social plane.
lower than the then predominant white population, ethnicity, or race in the US.
In addition, Samovar (in Rita, 2015) notes that racism can be broadly
divided into two categories: personal and institutional. While Bloom emphasizes
2.2.2 Discourse
how the discourse contributed to the reproduction of the racism in the original
forms of speech, such as spoken or written from verbal or specific use of the
or genre when discussing racist discourse, one uses the more common discourse
style in writing. Discourse can express itself non-verbally through more elaborate
semiotic mediums, including pictures, photos, drawings, body language, and the
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like. Due to this, racial accents can be expressed through pictures, movies,
this document for the brief level and a few discourse structures provide an
overview of how the discourse and its many structures can interact with various
places, ideological boxes are useful for polarizing people into ingroups and
organizations, and institutions that dominate at the global level and which, upon
While these flagrant forms of street racism violence are shocking and
although some of them occur fairly frequently, they do not all define the daily
serious and insidious are the cumulative and structural effects of the less violent,
white people.
attitudes, and ideologies, and seemingly subtle acts and conditions of treatment of
Many of the subtle and overt racist events that characterize everyday racist
white people themselves are not actively engaged in these modern forms of
scientific, social, cultural, and political insights that is problem oriented. The crux
of the matter is that racism as a social and political problem is a behavior of white,
western society, and the theoretical and methodological tools from various
system. In other words, the researcher takes the "ethnic situation description" as
goes without saying that this knowledge develops historically and as a result
understanding of how racism works than they did 40 or 100 years ago, due in part
to the Civil Rights Movement (Marable, 1985; Marx, 1967; Morris, 1984;
2.4.1 Groubs
because they are seen as members of a different group and not as individuals, i.e.,
belonging to a different group. The individuals in the group, who are presumed to
group as a whole.
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Group power is primarily a form of control: the range and nature of the
actions of members of the dominated group are limited by the actions, influence,
or perceived desires of the members of the dominant group. In other words, the
exercise of social control over other groups limits the social freedom of these
other groups.
however, the power base is also defined in terms of status, privilege, income, and
unwarranted control and privileged access to such resources define the idea of
domination and is at the heart of all forms of social inequality and therefore,
racism. In other words, group domination is a form of abuse of power. This also
applies to power relations within the dominant group itself, and therefore to the
and social dimensions. In addition to their control over access to valuable social
resources, the dominant group can indirectly control the minds of others.
The forms of group power introduced above are general in nature and also
apply to defining class and gender dominance; among other things, racism
the notion of racism was applied to forms of group dominance where specific
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that white people are inherently racist, but rather that historically, Europeans have
accumulated or assumed power that has been reproduced in racial terms, which
"white" race, while more modern types of racism emphasize "difference" with
other races.
which they were associated. Although closely related to Western colonialism and
between North and South and between European majorities and non-European
minorities.
system of power. This does not imply that this behavior is a conscious or
First, this happens because, in the concept of racism from the perspective
their impact on minorities. Second, at the level of groups and group dominance,
prejudices that are shared by many or most members of the dominant group.The
from the general one. At the level of local interaction and experience, the system
violation of the rules, norms, and values that underlie appropriate behavior in
social interaction.
everyday life. Defining text dimensions, relational value, and expressiveness are
the data analysis techniques used in this valuable research. The purpose of this
study is to find out the racist discourse in the film Blindspotting and provide an
discourse analysis and racist discourse. So, previous research has a relationship
with this research but this research analyzes racist discourse in Harriet's film using
Help. The theory of this research is based on Teun Van Dijk's Critical Discourse
Analysis with the Social Cognition Approach, taken from a book by Eriyanto
(2001). This approach analyzes three dimensions: text dimension, social cognition
dimension and social context dimension. The results of this study indicate that
context dimensions. This study has similarities with the authors of this study
different.
Then, by applying van Dijk's (2006) discourse strategy theory to uncover racist
traits, this research also reveals how actors describe racist aspects in
research uses AWK (Critical Discourse Analysis). The results showed that 34
27 of the 34 scenes on the issue of racism which were included in the racism
category because the other seven categories were not included in the type of
racism proposed by Dijk (2006). This study has similarities with the authors of
this study because it uses critical analysis discourse. However, the theoretical
approach used is different. In this study, researchers used Van Dijk's theory,
Finally, research was conducted by Indrawati (2021) with the research title
Adidas Tweets". The purpose of this research is to see how Adidas uses Twitter to
send messages about racism and unity. This research also reveals strong and
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relevant messages for Adidas to use on Twitter to address racism and create
solidarity. This research has similarities with the author's research because it uses
the same approach, namely racist discourse. However, researchers used a different
1. Groubs
2. Power and Dominance
3. Difference: Race and Ethnicity
4. White Racism
5. Social Practice And Social Cognition
The reason the researcher chose this theory is because the theory used by the
researcher is very suitable for analyzing the characters in Harriet movie. Where in
this movie, the racist behavior of white people towards black people is very
clearly illustrated in Harriet movie. This can be seen from the behavior of the
characters in this movie. Therefore, this research aims to find out, "How is racist
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the research method, it covers four sections: research
type, source of data, technique of data collections, and technique of data analysis.
are always used as a way to answer research questions. In this research, the
researcher wanted to analyze how the racist discourse in Harriet movie uses
used because the data focuses on information in the form of narratives related to
(1993).
The data sources in this research are divide into two categories: primary
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b. Reading the dialogue script from inside the movie intensively related
to racism aims to find out the aspect of racist discourse in the movie.
primary data.
data analysis used the Van Dijk framework (1993), and the techniques of data
The researcher will present the data collected in Harriet movie before
Researchers will describe the situation and context of the data that has
been presented.
The researcher will interpret the data based on racist discourse on the
Mahbub, BA, Purnama, A., & Hartono, H. 2020. Anti-Black Rasism in The Help:
Discourse Analysis.
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