The Uncle Tom View: “Undercover Brother”

By Kai Shipman Within Undercover Brother a 2002 Blaxploitation film, the main character experiences many changes in personality. The most memorable instance and the most important change in character is associated with him becoming a “sell-out.” In this moment he embodies and is depicted as a “Uncle Tom,” but with this change the writer seems

The Case For Miles Morales

By Delilah Jones. For this project, I chose to examine the fictional character Miles Morales, from 2018’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. He is a young man of African-American and Puerto-Rican descent who, after being bitten by a radioactive spider and witnessing the death of Peter Parker, is forced to take up the mantle and save