The 2017 film "Get Out", directed by Jordan Peele, is both a racial satire and a racial horror film. The story focuses on African-American Chris as he travels with his white girlfriend Rose to meet her parents for the first time. While there he...

In his 2017 film Get Out, Jordan Peele explores some of the mechanisms of racism that have oppressed people of colour and their impact on modern society to a great extent. He exposes his audience to the concept of white feminism and...

With the defeat of Jefferson Davis’ confederacy in 1865, the American South became a region marked by poverty. The Civil War not only destroyed large amounts of Southern infrastructure, but also devastated the demographic that would typically be...

In today’s society, where people now desire to be unique and different from others, the concept of personal identity has become very important. One acquires their personal identity through the experiences they have and how they learn and respond...

As James Baldwin asserts, “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them”, highlighting the recurring notion through history in that humanity is incapable to detach or learn from their past in order to create a newer future....