Month: March 2024

Pocahontas is a Disney animated film released in 1995 that takes place in 17th-century Virginia. The movie follows the encounter between an Algonquin woman, Pocahontas, and John Smith, an English soldier, and the ensuing tensions between the Indigenous peoples and the colonists. While the colonists, led by the antagonist Governor Radcliffe, set up camp in …

With the emergence and popularity of at-home DNA testing, scientific methods and findings are essentially used to further cement the notion of race as biologically determined. Services that provide DNA testing such as Ancestry.com have promised individuals the opportunity to trace their genetic heritage and to make their identities whole. Oftentimes, these services use advertisements …