Canceled: White Mansions, Black Bodies: Jordan Peele's "Get Out" and the New Age Slave Plantation
Thursday, 26 Mar 2020 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall
This event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 situation. Professor Novotny Lawrence discusses Jordan Peele's horror thriller "Get Out", demonstrating the ways in which the director employs traditional filmmaking storytelling tropes to examine contemporary racial profiles. In doing, Peele uses the cinema as a tool for social activism, working to help create a future in which citizens will potentially be more informed about, attuned to, and concerned with fighting against systemic racism. Spring 2020 Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture
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