Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: For my thesis, I will be using Jordan Peele’s movie, ‘Get Out,’ as the centre for my analysis on Anti-Black racism and racialization. I will discuss the ways in which the processes of racialization mask/masquerade as an intended politicalized method for perpetuating the continuity of racist violent representations of Blackness. Following this, I will highlight how this process works as an intended tool for controlling/possessing the Black body, and therefore serves as another form of colonization. To conclude, I will speak to the idea of White “injury,” which Wiegman (2007) refers to in Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity and the disavowal of White supremacy in regard to its responsibility/perpetuation and removal/negation of complacency in the project/perpetuation of Anti-Black racism.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Chisani Doyle-Wood
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2909497735