Sugar Island
Drama
Overview
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
Keywords
ritual
migration
spirituality
hair
burden
haitian
colonialism
social activism
unwanted pregnancy
motherhood
woman director
enslavement
dominican
sugarcane
granddaughter
juxtapositions
queer
black identity
prose
youth
latin american
teenager
sugar
first feature
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