Title: RACIAL OPPRESSION EXPERIENCES BY AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES IN HARRIETTE GILLEM ROBINET'S FORTY ACRES AND MAYBE A MULE
Abstract: Children‘s literature does not only as important role to educate young reader
but also to raise racial awareness, especially for African American race. A novel
entitled Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gilem Robinet raises an issue of
racial oppression experienced by African American characters. Portrayed as a young
boy growing up in slavery era and Reconstruction, Pascal and other black characters
have to deal with kinds of oppression from white people. Thus, this study aims to
examine how racial oppression is presented in the story. To examine the novel, the
writer applies African American Criticism, specifically Feagin‘s Oppression theory.
There are six features that had explained by Feagin about how systemic racism
works in this theory and also connected on to one thing, white economic domination.
Hence, the writer synchronizes and elaborates the conflicts in the novel to these
features. This study is a qualitative research where the data is taken from the novel,
library research, journals, and other resources, which are appropriate in conducting
the analysis. This study shows racial oppression toward Pascal and other black
characters happened because it was structured by white people in order to receive
many benefits. Many kinds of oppression occur in this story and lead to stereotype,
prejudice, marginalized, and etcetera that white as a powerful oppressor and blacks as
oppressed group.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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