Darmawan, Adnan Prasetya (2014) THE IMPACTS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TOWARDS THE MAIN CHARACTER’S PERSONALITY AS REFLECTED IN BLACK BOY BY RICHARD WRIGHT (A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY STUDY). S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
The objectives of this research are to identify the impacts of racial discrimination towards the main character’s personality as reflected in Black Boy by Richard Wright. The researcher applies social psychology of literature theory which is concerned on Erik Erikson’s identity: youth and crisis. Then, to analyze the way racial discrimination and the impacts of racial discrimination reflected in this autobiography, the researcher applies Erikson’s life cycle theory. This research is a qualitative research. The content analysis is used to analyze the data. The main data of this research are words, phrases, sentences, and dialogues related to racial discrimination and its impact of the main character. The key instrument of this research is the researcher himself. The researcher made some indicators of the racial discrimination problems, the impacts of racial discrimination toward the main character personality explained in the analytical construct. The indicators were made based on the theory to gain the data of this research. In addition, the researcher uses peer debriefing method in order to obtain the trustworthiness. This research reveals that there are three stages experienced by the main character with racial discriminations: racial discriminations experienced in childhood, racial discriminations experienced in teenager and racial discriminations experienced in young adult. Next, the researcher also reveals that there are five indicators of the racial discriminations impacts: being temperamental, being rude, easily getting angry, becoming silent, frightened of the white. Both of the last indicators are determined as result of the racial discriminations. The racial discriminations and the impacts of racial discrimination in Black Boy are represented by using social psychology as a literature problem. In conclusion, the researcher finds out that Black Boy is a great autobiography in delivering racial discrimination and its impacts toward the main character’s personality of African American’s teenager.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Social psychology of literature, identity, racial discriminations and impacts of racial discrimination |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2015 03:22 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 21:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/17570 |
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