paradoxes of colonialism and race
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wekker, Gloria
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- NED 1P 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- etniciteit, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, discriminatie, racisme, sociale klasse, kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, LHBT, seksualiteit, religie, vrouwenstudies, Nederland
- Description
- Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Netherlands as a 'gentle' and 'ethical' nation. Wekker analyzes the Dutch media's portrayal of black women and men, the failure to grasp race in the Dutch academy, contemporary conservative politics and the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete, showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence safeguards white privilege.