A Sociology of Literature Study : Acts of Anti-Racism as Reflected in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) = A Sociology of Literature Study : Acts of Anti-Racism as Reflected in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)

This research concerns the acts of the anti-racism as reflected in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. The research aims at identifying and analysing the social condition of the South America and the racism behaviours as well as the resistance against the racism as reflected in in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The research used the qualitative descriptive method with Lucien Goldmann’s Genetic Structuralism approach to find out the kinds of the racism behaviours being committed by the white people against the Afro-Americans and elaborate the acts of the anti-racism occurring in the novel. The research results indicates that the social conditions which occur are affected by the Great Depression crisis influencing the people’s economy in America including South America. Furthermore, the old stigma having developed in the society that the black people only deserve working as slaves and are synonymous with crimes and other bad things making everything more complicated. In addition, there are three kinds racism behaviours committed by the white people against Afro-Americans consisting of: 1) Prejudice; 2) Discrimination; and 3) Eviction towards Afro-Americans. There are also the acts against racism in the novel which can be encountered in Atticus Finch character serving as a lawyer to defend a black man having been accused as a white woman rapist. Another act against the racism found is how Atticus Finch teaches his children about equality.

Keywords: Racism, Afro-Americans, Genetic Structuralism