Discrimination In The Movie The Help

The movie "The Help", directed by Tate Taylor which is set back in the early 1960s highlights the racism of this time and really characterizes minority groups. The whites are superior to the blacks and the women in this movie really show how they considered this to be true, except for one women named Eugenia aka "Skeeter." Skeeter is the only women who treats the maids equally and treats them right. She plays a major role in this movie along with the other women who follow Miss. Hilly who is considered the "leader" of the group so every move she makes, so do the other women besides Skeeter.

Miss. Hilly and her clique highlight the racism of this time by treating their own maids unfairly. Miss. Hillys maids name is Minny and she treats her like a dog. She makes her use a different restroom because shes convinced she has a disease and …show more content…
In the movie the superior group are straight, white people and anyone other than that are frowned upon. For example when Skeeter is at home and her mom asks her why she rarely goes out with men she then follows up that question with asking if she likes women instead of men and says if so "there's a cure." Along with discrimination because of color it is seen with other aspects of this society too such as sexual preferences and how it's not okay because it's not the norm. Specifically for The Help the race of the maids is black which automatically makes them below the whites. Along with their race comes their ethnicity and because they may have different cultural practices then the whites they are also looked at as inferior. Race and ethnicity then pulls in social structure. Since the maids such as Minny and Aibileen have different physical and cultural traits they are instantly put lower in the social structure, whereas Miss. Hilly and her crew are instantly labeled as high in the social