White Innocence - Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life—the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia—to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. Zusammenfassung In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege. 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

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Wekker
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780822360759
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6075-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Diskriminierung, Kulturanthropologie, Europäische Geschichte, Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Westeuropa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Anthropologie / Kulturanthropologie, Multikulturell, Kultur / Multikulturell, Europa / Westeuropa, HISTORY / Europe / Western