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‘Micro/Aggression’: How Ant-Man and The Wasp Offers Longed-For Alt. Terminology

When Black psychiatrist Dr Chester Pierce (1970) coined the term ‘microaggression’, he couldn’t have predicted its development into…

19 min readNov 11, 2023

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‘Micro/Aggression’: How Ant-Man and The Wasp Offers Longed-For Alt. Terminology

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“I Am Kenough”: Guy DeBord, Barbie, and The Society of the Spectacle

Like any regular person after a hotly anticipated blockbuster film — this time Barbie — I left the screening thinking about French…

14 min readSep 6, 2023

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“I Am Kenough”: Guy DeBord, Barbie, and The Society of the Spectacle

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Get Out of Midsomer: How the Whiteness of Country Estates Should Go Bump in the Night

In American filmmaking there has been a renaissance in horror that uses genre storytelling to commentate on racism. However, following…

20 min readJun 27, 2023

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Get Out of Midsomer: How the Whiteness of Country Estates Should Go Bump in the Night

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Call for Participants: Northamptonshire’s Postwar Caribbean History, 1948–1985

Starting in April 2023 I’d like to interview people that may have stories about the Windrush Generation and / or the first generation of…

3 min readMar 1, 2023

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Call for Participants: Northamptonshire’s Postwar Caribbean History, 1948–1985

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Burn Babylon: The UK Honours System, Corruption, and Metrics of (Dis)OBEdience

Contrary to the more popularised ‘institutional racism’, terms like ‘institutional whiteness’ are not so widespread in wider public…

18 min readJan 8, 2023

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Burn Babylon: The UK Honours System, Corruption, and Metrics of (Dis)OBEdience

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The ‘Whites’ Who Loved Me: Interracial Romance, Hollywood, and Bridgerton’s “Post-Racial” Fantasies

Whilst Bridgerton fans shipped Kate and Anthony as #Kanthony, we also must consider how the Netflix show fits into a wider dominant media…

13 min readAug 22, 2022

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The ‘Whites’ Who Loved Me: Interracial Romance, Hollywood, and Bridgerton’s “Post-Racial” Fantasies

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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…

9 min readAug 17, 2022

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This Is Randall: What’s Representation Got to Do With It?

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The Railway Children Return: White Terrorism and Race Riots in Wartime Britain

The Railway Children is one of my favourite stories ever — and this sequel continues it admirably. The arrival of 150,000 Black American…

10 min readAug 12, 2022

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The Railway Children Return: White Terrorism and Race Riots in Wartime Britain

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“Weh Yuh Ah Seh?”: Transatlantic Anti-Racism in West Indies Cricket, 1976–1995

The history of anti-racism and postwar Caribbean migrants is inextricable. For me, Black Caribbean insurrection against British police and…

10 min readJul 5, 2022

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“Weh Yuh Ah Seh?”: Transatlantic Anti-Racism in West Indies Cricket, 1976–1995

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Internal Affairs: White Bodies as Raced and Out of Space in “Post-Racial” Bridgerton

This essay comes from an entry I submitted for a call for papers about Bridgerton that I did not end up using. It’s essentially a first…

25 min readJun 8, 2022

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Internal Affairs: White Bodies as Raced and Out of Space in “Post-Racial” Bridgerton

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Tré Ventour-Griffiths

Tré Ventour-Griffiths

Award-Winning Educator | Creative | Public Historian-Sociologist | Speaks: Race, Neurodiversity, Film + TV, Black British History + more | #Autistic #Dyspraxic

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