ANTI-RACISM 10-MINUTE TASK
Awareness Through
Reflection (KS4+adults)
Using a powerful scene from Get Out, explore how racism creates silence, powerlessness, and the erasure of agency — and connect those ideas to real life.
3
QUESTIONS
12
POINTS
15+
AGE
Some content in this task may be sensitive or emotionally challenging. Please proceed with care.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this task, you will be able to recognise, understand, and discuss the following:
Recognise how control, silencing, and lack of agency are expressions of racism.
Understand how film and media can reflect real-life discrimination and power dynamics.
Reflect on real-life situations where people may experience silencing, exclusion, or discrimination,
and describe how this can connect to racism and power.
Watch Before You Begin
The Sunken Place — from Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele). Watch carefully and pay attention to what Chris can and cannot do.
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Answer the Questions
Three short-answer questions. Take your time. Each is worth up to 4 points — total of 12.
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