Racial Oppression toward African-American Slave in John Korty's "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" Movie

The objectives of this study were to find out 1) To investigate and explain the
types of racial oppression occurred in the movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman, and 2) To describe how the characters resisted the racial discrimination
aimed to them in the movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The data
are analyzed in descriptive qualitative approach. The data of this research were
from the utterance of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman movie characters.
The data were taken from all the utterances, including monologues, dialogues, and
narrations from the script which is already transcripted from the movie. The result
of this research showed that 1) there are four types of oppressions that happened
in the movie, namely: Exploitation with a total number of 2 utterances (6.7%),
Marginalization with a total number of 10 utterances (33.3%), Powerlessness with
a total number of 6 utterances (20%), and violence with a total number of 12
utterances (40%). 2) There are three types of resistance that are used by
the characters, namely: Acquiescence with a total number of 5 utterances
(31.25%), violence resistance with a total number of 4 utterances (25%), Non-
Violence Resistance with a total number of 7 utterances (43.75%).