Gloria Wekker: White Innocence | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822360759 | White Innocence | Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race | Gloria Wekker

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In White Innocence 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 (including gay politicians espousing anti-immigrant rhetoric), and the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete, showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence safeguards white privilege. Wekker uncovers the postcolonial legacy of race and its role in shaping the white Dutch self, presenting the contested, persistent legacy of racism in the country.

Über den Autor

Gloria Wekker is Professor Emeritus of Gender Studies at Utrecht University and the author of several books, including The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. "Suppose She Brings a Big Negro Home": Case Studies of Everyday Racism 30

2. The House That Race Built 50

3. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917 81

4. Of Homo Nostalgia and (Post)Coloniality: Or, Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go? 108

5. "For Even Though I Am Black as Soot, My Intentions Are Good": The Case of Black Pete 139

Coda. "But What about the Captain?" 168

Notes 175

References 193

Index 215

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822360759
ISBN-10:	0822360756
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wekker, Gloria
Hersteller:	MNG University Presses Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	2 photographs
Maße:	228 x 151 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Gloria Wekker
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.04.2016
Gewicht:	0,354 kg