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

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10.2991/assehr.k.211020.111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

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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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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