Essays on Double Consciousness

People always ask me “What are you?” or “Where are you from?” and every time I find myself metaphysically probing my own psyche, my own existence. Questioning myself “Who or what even am I,” I naturally work my way down the socially imposed and acceptable labels – American (that’s not a ‘race/ethnicity’ and my ‘color’…

Overlord is a war horror film that takes place during the day before D-DAY when allied military forces invaded Normandy during World War II. The goal was to liberate France from German occupation. The film follows the main protagonist soldier paratrooper Boyce and his comrades as they attempt to complete their mission of destroying a…

The reading I chose is “Race, Class, and Gender” written by: Patricia Hill Collins. She begins with a short paragraph that helped me develop a new way of thinking and seeing things. She talks about how it is easy to see how women are oppressed that is, if you are a woman. It’s easy to…

All thrillers seem to clothe themselves in a pretentious cloth of unoriginal uniformity so much so that we have a handle of what will happen as soon as the heart-thumping cinematic music starts. They all follow the theme of a few ready-made American fetishes: demonic activity, psychopath killer, a ghost of the past, and corny…