Week 8b: Race/Racism in the Netherlands

Wednesday, October 20

For today, prepare:

• Watch (56 min): Bergman, Sunny dir. 2014. “Zwart als Roet / Our Colonial Hangover” VPRO Public Broadcasting. Documentary 
  Warning: depictions of black face. https://www.vpro.nl/speel~WO_VPRO_728933~zwart-als-roet-the-english-version-our-colonial-hangover~.html
• Watch (16 min): Wekker, Gloria. 2016. “Never be indifferent: 400 years of Dutch Colonialism.” TEDxAmsterdam Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMwgzK9LGeM
• Read: The Washington Post. 2021. “Racial reckoning in the Caribbean: Former colony confronts the Netherlands over coronavirus conditions” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-sint-maarten-netherlands/2021/03/10/d2f58bea-80e9-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html
• Read: Vice. 2020. “The Netherlands’ ‘Black Pete’ Just Got Cancelled on Facebook.” September 4, 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3e7ze/the-netherlands-black-pete-just-got-cancelled-on-facebook

Supplemental Resources:
Wekker, Gloria. 2016. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.