In the beginning of the movie, there is a scene with Sandra Bullocks character, Jean Cabot, who is portrayed as a rich white female, walking down the street with her husband to their car. While walking down the street, Jean Cabot spots the two black men approaching her, and automatically grabs her husband’s arm out of fear. This scene is a perfect analogy of Stuart Halls “The Whites of Their Eyes” inferential racism. In the article, Hall states that Inferential racism is when “events or situations relating to race, whether “factual” or “fictional,” which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions.” (Hall, 1995). Sandra Bullock’s fear of the two black men is based on the media’s constant portrayal
