Gloria Wekker

White Innocence

Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

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Produktbeschreibung

In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch lifeâ the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobiaâ to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360759
• ISBN-10: 0822360756
• Artikelnr.: 43553098

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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