System of Law Anthropology

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SYSTEM OF LAW ANTHROPOLOGY
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I. Theme: Racism
A. The movie selected for this study is a “To Kill a Mockingbird”. It is important to
mention that the movie is inspired from a novel that have the same name. During depression era,
the members of the society highly subjugated the blacks and the blacks are not let to commingle
with the whites during the public settings. There were even separate living places for the blacks
and the whites. Furthermore, things like inter marriage is not promoted and the whites had
extreme hatred for the same (Rapping, 2015).
B. film plot: The film is based on a Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize wing book called the “To
Kill a Mockingbird”. The film is set up in Southern United States during the early 1930s and the
story is of a black man, who is accused of raping a Caucasian woman. Here and idealistic lawyer
(Atticus Finch) offer to defend the black man. As one begins to watch the movie, it become
prominent that the defending is far from easy as no person in the town was willing to believe that
the negro is innocent (Macaluso, 2017).
II. Article summary
A. it has been highlighted by Rezazade and Zohdi (2016), that racial injustice and
discrimination towards the blacks have existed since the beginning of the gatherings of the
society and communication. It is evident that throughout the history, the blacks and the ones that
have coloured skin are not accepted by the people belonging from the white community due to
the superiority of the whites over the blacks. Regardless of the manual labour and the positive
role of the blacks in doing the manual labour and assisting in turning the industries of the whites,
the blacks has always been termed and treated as the clownish and non-human creatures that are
born only to serve the whites. It is important to mention that the African Americans are the main