Gloria Wekker: 5 books

Book cover of White Innocence

White Innocence

Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

by Gloria Wekker
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016

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...
Book cover of Witte onschuld

Witte onschuld

paradoxen van kolonialisme en ras

by Gloria Wekker
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 17, 2017

Witte onschuld is de geactualiseerde uitgave van White Innocence (2016), waarin Gloria Wekker een centrale paradox in de Nederlandse cultuur onderzoekt en beschrijft: de passie en agressie die ras oproept, terwijl het bestaan van ras en racisme tegelijkertijd in alle toonaarden wordt ontkend. In de...
Book cover of The Politics of Passion

The Politics of Passion

Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

by Gloria Wekker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006

Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...
Book cover of Een kamer voor jezelf
by Virginia Woolf, Gloria Wekker, Simon(E) van Saarloos
Language: Dutch
Release Date: April 18, 2018

Wij presenteren u de eerste publicatie van Uitgeverij Chaos: 'Een kamer voor jezelf' van Virginia Woolf. Woolf was een van de belangrijkste modernistische schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw. In deze heruitgavevan haar essay A Room of One's Own (1929), vertaald door Monique ter Berg, bereikt dit iconische...
Book cover of Smash the Pillars

Smash the Pillars

Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom

by Artwell Cain, Antonio Carmona Báez, Jessica de Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018

Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom...
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