Black Lives in the Stix: Caribbean Northants and ‘Decentring Black London’ on Screen, 1948–85This article was prior published in Warwick District Council’s “British Local History and the Black Atlantic” — it comes attached to their…Jun 6Jun 6
‘Micro/Aggression’: How Ant-Man and The Wasp Offers Longed-For Alt. TerminologyWhen Black psychiatrist Dr Chester Pierce (1970) coined the term ‘microaggression’, he couldn’t have predicted its development into…Nov 11, 2023Nov 11, 2023
“I Am Kenough”: Guy DeBord, Barbie, and The Society of the SpectacleLike any regular person after a hotly anticipated blockbuster film — this time Barbie — I left the screening thinking about French…Sep 6, 20231Sep 6, 20231
Get Out of Midsomer: How the Whiteness of Country Estates Should Go Bump in the NightIn American filmmaking there has been a renaissance in horror that uses genre storytelling to commentate on racism. However, following…Jun 27, 2023Jun 27, 2023
Call for Participants: Northamptonshire’s Postwar Caribbean History, 1948–1985Starting in April 2023 I’d like to interview people that may have stories about the Windrush Generation and / or the first generation of…Mar 1, 2023Mar 1, 2023
Burn Babylon: The UK Honours System, Corruption, and Metrics of (Dis)OBEdienceContrary to the more popularised ‘institutional racism’, terms like ‘institutional whiteness’ are not so widespread in wider public…Jan 8, 2023Jan 8, 2023
The ‘Whites’ Who Loved Me: Interracial Romance, Hollywood, and Bridgerton’s “Post-Racial” FantasiesWhilst Bridgerton fans shipped Kate and Anthony as #Kanthony, we also must consider how the Netflix show fits into a wider dominant media…Aug 22, 20221Aug 22, 20221
This Is Randall: What’s Representation Got to Do With It?With more Black people now on our film and television screens, it was not really until I started to watch NBC’s hit show ‘This Is Us’ in…Aug 17, 20222Aug 17, 20222
The Railway Children Return: White Terrorism and Race Riots in Wartime BritainThe Railway Children is one of my favourite stories ever — and this sequel continues it admirably. The arrival of 150,000 Black American…Aug 12, 2022Aug 12, 2022
“Weh Yuh Ah Seh?”: Transatlantic Anti-Racism in West Indies Cricket, 1976–1995The history of anti-racism and postwar Caribbean migrants is inextricable. For me, Black Caribbean insurrection against British police and…Jul 5, 2022Jul 5, 2022
