{"id":52084,"date":"2017-03-06T01:52:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52084"},"modified":"2017-03-06T01:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:52:47","slug":"get-out-perfectly-captures-the-terrifying-truth-about-white-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52084","title":{"rendered":"Get Out Perfectly Captures the Terrifying Truth About White Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get Out<\/strong> Perfectly Captures the Terrifying Truth About White Women<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cosmopolitan<\/a>
\n2017-02-28<\/p>\n

Kendra James<\/strong><\/a>
\nNew York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nBlumhouse Productions<\/small><\/p>\n

There are many scary things about the movie, but scariest of all is its realistic depiction of racism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Major spoilers ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Get Out<\/em><\/a>, writer-director Jordan Peele<\/a> takes 90 minutes to meditate on a lesson Kim Kardashian<\/a> once spelled out for America via snake emojis<\/a> and Taylor Swift<\/a>: White women are not to be trusted.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll let you decide how offended you want to be by that thesis while I spoil the hell out of this movie.<\/p>\n

Get Out<\/em> draws on the terrifying elements you might expect to find in your typical February horror movie release. There\u2019s hypnotism, multiple jump-scares, a Deliverance<\/em><\/a>-style redneck<\/a>, and an illicit basement surgery where a doctor operates on people\u2019s brains without their consent. As scary as any of these things are, they\u2019re tropes we can all recognize as pure fiction, for the most part. They\u2019re things we\u2019re still more likely to run into in film, books, or television rather than in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the horrors of racism and white womanhood aren\u2019t confined to imagination and pop culture. In using both realities in his movie, Peele brings Get Out<\/em> to a higher level of horror, at least for any person of color in the audience. We\u2019re all keenly aware of how possible it is…<\/p>\n

…Jordan Peele is married to and expecting a child with a white woman, Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>\u2019s<\/a> Chelsea Peretti<\/a>. He\u2019s also biracial; his mother is white. But as he reaffirms in his latest Nerdist<\/em> interview<\/a> with Chris Hardwick<\/a>, Peele sees himself \u2014 and experiences the world \u2014 as a black man. American history is littered with the bodies of black men jailed, beaten, and killed due to the simple words <\/em>of white women. \u201cA few months later… two negro boys, ages 8 and 9 were arrested, tried, and sent to reform school for allegedly kissing or allowing themselves to be kissed by a neighborhood playmate, a 7-year-old white girl!\u201d Langston Hughes wrote<\/a> in 1962<\/a>.\u00a0..<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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