Segregation The Impacts of Racial Prejudice

32 Richard Wright’s Native Son”. Eka Nurcahyani in this thesis presents a discussion about the negative impacts of racial prejudice and discrimination upon the life of black American society in the Northern cities as reflected in Richard Wright’s Native Son. The objective of this thesis is to trace the negative impacts of racial prejudice and discrimination upon the life of black American society in the Northern cities especially in Chicago as reflected in Richard Wright’s Native Son. Racial prejudice and discrimination against black American have some negative impacts upon their life. Racial prejudice and discrimination in housing, employment, education, and law and justice cause the existence of their sense of inferiority, hopelessness, and sense of alienation. It also has a tremendous contribution to their poverty and the increase of crime and juvenile delinquency. By rejecting blacks from the mainstream of American life and treating them as inferior race, white American create “Bad Nigger”, which can explode at any time into violence and fury. As long as racial prejudice and discrimination still exist, their condition is difficult to change even when they do their best. The other research is still a sarjana degree thesis entitled “Racial Prejudice Underlying the Jim Crow Law Practices in the Deep South Revealed in John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me” 2007 written by Alice Febrianne 034214039 from Sanata Dharma University. This research focuses on how Jim Crow Law practices revealed through the character of Griffin and society as setting in Black Like Me and is aimed to see how the 33 race prejudice underlying the Jim Crow Law practices revealed in Black Like Me. Those previous research have the similarities topic about racial prejudice which are done by majority toward minorities. In addition, these two research talk about reflection of literary study to real life. In this research the researcher focuses on racial prejudice as one of the root of problems in society.