Don’t be fooled by a catchy tune
How the international soundtrack to Black Lives Matter critiques the present by reworking the past.
How the international soundtrack to Black Lives Matter critiques the present by reworking the past.
At the largest gathering of black people he had ever seen together in Amsterdam, the author, originally from Kenya, wonder why they knew so little of each other.
A Dutch woman of Ugandan descent reflects on growing up with Zwarte Piet.
Even in spite of a recent history of reactionary backlash, the movement against #ZwartePiet (Black Pete) has had some success.
The exhibition 'Goede Hoop: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600,' in Amsterdam, is like making your way through a hall of mirrors.
The Netherlands needs a politics that is about race and class and gender and sexuality – not just about class in a reductionist sense.
Often championed as a human rights defender, the Netherlands continuously fails miserably in politically protecting and socially including refugees.
Most elites in the Netherlands are no different than racists when it comes to defending #ZwartePiet.
People forget that for 176 years, racial slavery was the central institution in a large part of the territories that would come to form South Africa.
The Dutch state and its economy are profiting generously from their annual blackface partay.
The collective BE.BOP works to introduce a decolonial way of thinking about the visual arts in Europe and Africa.
What the Amsterdam court ruling against blackface figure Zwarte Piet really means.
Responding to criticism of a Dutch blackface Christmas character, supporters come up with a dumb plan.
The hype around 'mixed race' families ignore that it is not a new phenomenon, but been a central part of Dutch colonial history.
It is not clear what Ghanaian duo Fokn Bois, on tour in the Netherlands, was doing visiting a boring Dutch town, Liesbeth. But it turned out to be fun.
Interview with Verene Shepherd, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on People of African Descent.
The mainstream view is that the Netherlands was a staunch supporter of South Africa's liberation movement? The story is a bit more complicated.
The Dutch can't hide how racist the "tradition" of the blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is. Here we parody their rationalizations.
No, there's is not a vigorous debate on blackface and racism in the Netherlands. Instead it's the usual duplicity of Dutch liberals.
The mistake of directing the hardline scorn we reserve for say Madonna and Fox News at small independent filmmakers or young volunteers at NGO's in Africa.