In 2015, the United States Supreme Court relied on the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to establish the legality of same-sex marriage in its monumental Obergefell v. Hodges decision. However, in the ...

Merle Hodge, the author of Crick Crack, Monkey (1970) dexterously portrays the maturation of a young girl, Tee, affected by the imposition of European models onto her Trinidadian culture. I argue that this imposition is ...

King Vidor’s The Crowd and Harold Lloyd’s Speedy, both released in 1928 during the late silent film era, explore paradoxical themes of one’s individualism and anonymity in modern New York City. Both films convey the changing ...