Racial Discrimination in Jason Mott’s Novel “Hell of a Book”

Abstract

MORPHOSIS: JOURNAL OF LITERATURE

e-ISSN: 2686-2980; p-ISSN: 2686-2999

Volume 3 Number 3, September, 2021

http://openjournal.unpam.ac.id/index.php/MPS/index

Racial Discrimination in Jason Mott’s Novel “Hell of a Book”

Sakti Ramadhan¹, Diyah Iis Andriani².

^1,2 Universitas Pamulang

email: saktiramadhan99@gmail.com.

Abstract

This study aims to analyze acts of racial discrimination white race over black experienced by the main character who has three personalities in a novel entitled Hell of A Book (2021) by Jason Mott. As a direction for this study, the writer uses the theory of racial discrimination initiated by Pincus (1999) to analyze how racial discrimination portrayed in Hell of A Book novel and to analyze how the protagonist deal with racial discrimination. This study uses qualitative study method to analyze the elements contained in literary works which are then described with supporting theories. The results of this study indicate that racial discrimination in the novel occurs in three forms, namely, individual discrimination, institutional discrimination, and structural discrimination. Based on the analysis, institutional discrimination is the most kind of discrimination happens to the main characters because the perpetrators of racial discrimination are individuals or groups who have authority in government institutions. In an effort to deal with racial suffering, the main character in the novel does various things such as trying to become invisible, listening to parents' advice, rejecting self-stigma, and practicing using weapons. Thus, several things, the thing most often done by the character in the face of racial discrimination is to try not to be seen.

Keyword: racial discrimination, skin color, forms of discrimination, resisting the stigma