Representation of Racial Discrimination in Kasi Lemmons’s Harriet

This study aimed at identifying the kinds of racial discrimination in Illustration and
dialog of script and movie biographies about Harriet Tubman and what are Nigger's
resistance toward those discriminations in the movie. This study was conducted by
applying descriptive qualitative method. The sources of data were taken from the
script. The research instrument was the researcher herself by using a tool including
laptop and books. The results of this research showed that in Harriet movie, there
were five types of discrimination with the total of verbal antagonist (37,037%),
avocation (18,518%), segregation (37,037%), physical attack (7,4071%). Racial
discrimination is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various
human races determine cultural or individual achievement, and finally
discrimination found as the most dominant thing that the depict racism in the movie.