ANTI RASISME PADA TOKOH ERIN GRUWELL DALAM FILM FREEDOM WRITERS KARYA RICHARD LAGRAVENESE

Abstract

In California, racism is a common issue. Unequal behavior in many fields of life makes people decide to be anti racist. This thesis tells about an anti-racist teacher named Erin Gruwell in Long Beach, California as showed in “Freedom Writers” film directed by Richard LaGravenese. The purpose of this thesis are to know Erin Gruwell’s anti racism, analyze Erin’s life and environment which make her become an anti-racist person, and understand the effect of her anti-racist through pictures and dialogs in “Freedom Writers” film. In writing this thesis, the writer employs library research, that is done by reading books, articles, or any written and visual documents related to the topics. While in answering the questions the writer uses exponential approach for analyzing intrinsic aspects. Social psychology and sociology approaches are also used to analyze Erin’s anti racism. The result shows that Erin’s anti racism can be seen from conflicts happened to her. Besides, there are other factors that make her as an anti-racist such as her identification process, outside social interaction, selectivity, motive, social nature, and relationship with her social environment. At the end, the effect of Erin’s anti racism appears. It shows that Erin’s students in 203 classroom change their behavior to be anti-racist.