This is Us: Deconstructing Race, Identity and Sexual Trauma in Jordan Peele’s “Us”

by Max S. Gordon

“I think these cases…underscored that kind of disparity, the two-tiered society that we lived in. The notion that these lives weren’t as valuable….the phrase that people used for so many of these kids, they were throw-away kids. Literally. Kill them or throw them in the underbrush and nobody will…