Theme of Black Suffering in Black Museum

A Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

                In this study the researcher used Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis model to analyse the portrayal of race and racism in the TV series Black Mirror, focusing on the episode "Black Museum." CDA is a method of studying language that combines various disciplines to understand the social context, text, and social cognition. The study aims to explore how language and discourse are used to express and perpetuate discriminatory ideologies, particularly in relation to racial discrimination. By applying Van Dijk's CDA model, the research uncovers the discursive strategies employed in the episode to address race and racism. According to the finding, researchers revealed the harmony of racism, social discrimination, norms, culture, values and future of the blacks. In the social cognition, researcher shows the cruel perspective of racism, status inequality, and torture, researchers also observed that this particular episode stands out as the only one to explicitly address the topic of race and racism. However, researchers used dialogues, visual extract, and reviews to highlight the social perspective of the racial society under the shed of Van Dijk’s CDA model.