Research Proposal
A. Background of Study
According to book “White Racism”, racism is the system of oppression of African Americans and other people of color by White Europeans and White Americans (Feagin, Vera, Batur 3). Racial discrimination is one of the social problem happen in the 20th century. It can be the oppression of a group of people on the basis of race and color. In the United States, racism is structured into the rhythms of everyday life. Whites are live, concrete, advantages, not for who are not white which is they just get the painful (Feagen 2). In the other book defines racism as the organized system of oppression of one so-called inferior racial group to the …show more content…
The researcher want to focus on the racial injustice that was concerned by Tom Robinson, the fact that he is a black man accused of such a crime by whites make him guilty. To kill a mockingbird also depict about the effect of racism for black people in the south of American. The novel occurred such a conflict between white and colored people in Alabama that is why the researcher wants to use the theory of …show more content…
In his research “An Analysis of Prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird”, he focus on the prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird and also he want to prove the prejudice in the novel. He use the mimetic theory. Different from this research, the researcher focus on the racial discrimination in the form of justice by using theory of conflict.
The third research was conducted by Nora Ainul Farida (2011) the student of UIN Malang. In her research “Prejudice in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird”, she uses sociology of literature as a tool to look at prejudice in the novel. The results are there are some prejudices which are done by many Maycomb people against families with different or bad habit and against black people. Those prejudices are caused by the differences in custom and race. It is different from this research where she focus on the prejudice and this research focus on the racial