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Description: This research examined the depiction of Black Caribbean identity in American film and how these representations are perceived by Black Caribbean immigrants. Though race is usually the most perceptually available characteristic, cultural heritage plays a prominent role in Black Caribbean identity formation. Undertaking interpretive textual analyses of three films, Bob Marley: One Love (2024), Cool Runnings (1993), and Black Panther (2018), this study examined the surface level cultural markers us