Racism and discrimination in the Netflix film Su Casa

Abstract

The Netflix film Su Casa (2020) is an opportunity to analyze some of the discursive representations of racism in cinema. The main objective focuses on identifying the racist hegemonic traits that are manifested in non-verbal structures, such as advertisements, gestures, dialogues, words, etc. In the context of this research, and especially the film Su Casa (2020), we start from the idea that cinema has constructed geographical and racial stereotypes. In analyzes of racism, it is very common that dark skin color implies a development of consciousness related to economic and social realities; the inferiority complex occurs in two ways: an economic process and a process of internalization, or better yet saying of epidermization of this inferiority.