Ebook {Epub PDF} White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker

 · In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial Author: Gloria Wekker. white innocence: paradoxes of colonialism and race is an incredibly important work. it centers and showcases the netherlands’ imperialist past, and mostly how the legacy of that past still influences and stimulates dutch politics, behavior, and thought. it’s a unique thesis in how it analyzes racist comments in media, personal stories of how racist minorities are treated this day, and the cultural phenomenon of /5. Publication date: 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 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the Cited by:

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. On Wednesday Octo at pm, at Athenaeum Boekhandel (Roetersstr WB Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Gloria D. Wekker, Professor Emeritus of Gender Studies at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University (Netherlands), will hold a lecture on her book White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Duke University Press, ). However, as Gloria Wekker explains in her book, White Innocence, the dominant Dutch self-portrait is distorted. Wekker argues that embedded within the cultural archive of this 'small', 'tender' and 'color blind' country remain hostile racism and xenophobia, inherited from centuries of Dutch colonial rule.

White Innocence Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race - Gloria Wekker. White Innocence Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. 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 years of Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges. 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.