In this paper, the problem of racism will be looked at through culture and works of art which deal with this topic. The emphasis is on the movie Get Out by director Jordan Peele, released in 2017. The film is of the horror-thriller genre and it tells the story of a young African American who deals with the problems of racial discrimination in everyday situations. The events from the movie are examined through a sociological perspective. Throughout the paper the works of W.E.B. Du Bois are mentioned very often as he was the first highly educated African American and one the most popular sociologists who wrote about race. His works are compared to situations from the movie. Even though the works of Du Bois are more than a hundred years older than the movie, it is very interesting to note the similarities between the movie’s dialogues and Du Bois’ writings and observations which he had as an African American in high society. The root of the word racism, its origin and existence in other parts of the world in the form of apartheid in South Africa or the Holocaust in Nazi Germany