ANALISIS PESAN ANTI RASISME DALAM FILM DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

Abstract

This study aims to find out what messages are contained in the film Dear White People. Peirce
semiotics theory is the underlying theory of this research. This theory deals with indentifying,
documenting, and classifying the main types of signs and how they are used in representative
activities. Messages ini movies usually depict events or phenomena that are all around us, such
as warfare, romance, munder, mafia crimes, rasism, anti rasism and more.a good movie is a
movie that has the contents of a message that can be used as inspiration by the movie lovers. A
movie can be said to be quality if the theme and content of the message contains a positive and
strong meaning. From the result of this study found that the film Dear White People directed by
Justin Simien has a message that oppression, discrimination or exclusion of a group, people or
groups both minority and majority is a form of racism.the struggle against racism by
suppressing the majority with the stereotype that the majority always oppress the minority is a
new from of racism.
Keywords: Message, Anti Rasisme,Film.