Dutch racism
This book is the first comprehensive study of its kind. The approach is unique, not comparative but relational, in unraveling the legacy of racism in the Netherlands and the (former) colonies. Authors contribute to identifying the complex ways in which racism operates in and beyond the national borders, shaped by European and global influences, and intersecting with other systems of domination. Contrary to common sense beliefs it appears that old-fashioned biological notions of race never disappeared. At the same time the Netherlands echoes, if not leads, a wider European trend, where offensive statements about Muslims are an everyday phenomenon. This book challenges readers to question what happens when the moral rejection of racism looses ground. The volume captures the layered nature of Dutch racism through a plurality of registers, methods, and disciplinary approaches: from sociology and history to literary analysis, art history and psychoanalysis, all different elements competing for relevance, truth value, and explanatory power. This range of voices and visions offers illuminating insights in the two closely related questions that organize this book: what factors contribute to the complexity of Dutch racism? And why is the concept of racism so intensely contested? The volume will speak to audiences across the humanities and social sciences and can be used as textbook in undergraduate as well as graduate courses
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Cover; Tilte Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Innocence, Smug Ignorance, Resentment:An Introduction to Dutch Racism; 1. Narratives and Legacies of Dutch Racism; Chattel Slavery and Racism: A Reflection on the Dutch Experience; Harmless Identities: Representations of Racial Consciousness among Three Generations Indo-Europeans; "They Have Forgotten to Gas You":Post-1945 Antisemitism in the Netherlands; Racism and "the Ungrateful Other" in the Netherlands; Race, Color, and Nationalism in Aruban andCuracaoan Political Identities; De la Rey, De la Rey, De la Rey: Invoking the Afrikaner Ancestors. 2. Black Bodies, White FantasmsDiving into the Wreck: Exploring Intersections of Sexuality, "Race," Gender, and Class in the Dutch Cultural Archive; Types and Stereotypes: Zwarte Piet and HisEarly Modern Sources; The Enunciation of the Nation: Notes on ColonialRefractions in the Netherlands; The Dutch Carnivalesque: Blackface, Play, and Zwarte Piet; Between "Dutch Tolerance" and "Moroccan Normality": Benali's Bruiloft aan zee as Challenge to an All Too"Happy Multiculturality"; 3. Normalizing Racism, Resisting Humiliations. Neither With, Nor Without Them-Ethnic Diversity on theWork Floor: How Egalitarianism Breeds DiscriminationBlack Dutch Voices: Reports from a Country thatLeaves Racism Unchallenged; Strategies and Aesthetics: Responses to Exclusionary Practices in the Public Arts Sector; Biology, Culture, 'Postcolonial Citizenship' and theDutch Nation, 1945-2007; Institutionalizing the Muslim Other: Naar Nederland andthe Violence of Culturalism; Refusing to be Silenced: Resisting Islamophobia; 4. Dutch Situations: Reflections From Visitors andOther Keen Observers. First Impressions: Race and Immigration in HollandThe Politics of Avoidance
the Netherlands in Perspective; The Covenant of the Allochthons: How NativistRacism Affects Youth Culture in Amsterdam; Racisms in Orange: Afterword; The Contributors; Index