INSTITUTIONALIZED, INTERNALIZED, AND INTRA-RACIAL RACISM IN RICHARD WRIGHT’S BIG BOY LEAVES HOME

English

Abstract

Racial discrimination seems to have become common in America, especially those who are black people. They are used to experiencing the oppression of racial issues such as economic, social, skin color, and psychological caused by racism. This study analyzes racism in Big Boy Leaves Home by Richard Wright. The short story talks about the story of black people who experience discrimination and injustice rights because of their racial differences. This study is aimed to find out the types and the effects of racism. This study focuses to examine racism in the short story Big Boy Leaves Home based on Lois Tyson’s perspective of racism. The method used in this study is qualitative descriptive method. The result shows that the writer finds there are three types of racism in this study. Those are: 1) intra-racial racism shows that the visible difference in rights is the restriction of facilities for black people. 2) Internalized racism shows that black people are considered less moral by white ones. 3) Intra racial racism against the character are suffering a lot psychologically and physically.