Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)

Racial Stereotype and African American Resistance Against the Authority in Straight Outta Compton (2015) by Felix Gary Gray

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D Agustinus, Risa Rumetha Simanjuntak
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Available Online 21 October 2021.
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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.111How to use a DOI?
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Racial Stereotype, African American Resistance, Straight Outta Compton
Abstract

Racial discrimination and stereotyping are major social issues that create sense of difference towards a person or groups of people. This research will be analyzing about racial discrimination, stereotyping, and resistance that are portrayed in the movie Straight Outta Compton directed by Felix Gary Gray by using qualitative method. In addition, Racial Discrimination, Stereotyping, and resistance are to be guided with the theory of post-colonialism. From the movie, the writer aims to show how racial discrimination, stereotyping, and resistance that are portrayed in the movie. Further data also showed labelling and offensive naming towards the group of African-American characters in the movie.In conclusion,it was shown that despite the apparent discrimination, resistance was done without violence and was expressed through music and culture.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
21 October 2021
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978-94-6239-441-4
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211020.111How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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