Gloria Wekker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gloria Wekker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gloria |
| FAMILY NAME | Wekker |
| SIGNATURE | WEKKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader
peer reviewed
What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora
This essay tells a narrative of various contexts in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora that share a struggle around the meanings of Black. What happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese transatlantic diaspora? Some of the questions addressed are, Which terms have African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in dif…
Vénus Noire
In this attractively written, handsomely illustrated volume, historian Robin Mitchell discusses the lives and representations of three Black women in nineteenth-century France in the context of the devastating loss of France's most profitable colony at the time: Saint-Domingue.It is telling of the large-scale depression that that loss sank France into, that the French held on to this name for a very long time, instead of adopting "Haiti," the nam…
Decolonizing Knowledge of Black Queer Gender
Afropessimism
White Innocence
All the energies poured into critical theory, into novel and demystifying theoretical praxes-have avoided the major, I would say the determining political horizon of modern Western culture, namely imperialism.Edward Said, "Secular Interpretation" "A Particular Knowledge . . ."This book is dedicated to an exploration of a strong paradox that is operative in the Netherlands and that, as I argue, is at the heart of the nation: the passion, forcefuln…
I had been thinking [her] thoughts for so long I thought they were mine’
Thomas J. Sugrue, Not even Past. Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
With the title “Not even Past,” historian and sociologist Thomas J. Sugrue alludes to a motto used by Barack Obama in his most famous speech “A more perfect union,” held in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, when, pressured by the uproar around the sermons of his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, he positioned himself with regard to race. Obama himself borrowed the phrase from William Faulkner, who wrote “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not …
The Politics of Passion
No Tide, No Tamara / Not Today, Not Tomorrow: Misi Juliette Cummings's Life History 2. Suriname, Sweet Suriname: A Political Economy of Gendered and Racialized Inequality 3. Winit, an Afro-Surinamese Religion and the Multiplicitous Self 4. Kon Sidon na mi Tapu.../ Then He Comes and Sits Down on Top of Me... Relationships Between Women and Men 5. Mati Work 6. Sexualitiy on the MoveNotes Works Cited Index
Still Crazy after All Those Years
The author argues for passing on a particular brand of feminism to next generations. The cultural archive (after Said) to be passed on should be transnational, intersectional, interdisciplinary, relational and reflexive. In particular, the author focuses on processes and practices of racialization as they impact on and are practised within the discipline. In the current backlash against feminism and women’s studies in different parts of Europe, f…
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
White Innocence
All the energies poured into critical theory, into novel and demystifying theoretical praxes-have avoided the major, I would say the determining political horizon of modern Western culture, namely imperialism.Edward Said, "Secular Interpretation" "A Particular Knowledge . . ."This book is dedicated to an exploration of a strong paradox that is operative in the Netherlands and that, as I argue, is at the heart of the nation: the passion, forcefuln…
Still Crazy after All Those Years
The author argues for passing on a particular brand of feminism to next generations. The cultural archive (after Said) to be passed on should be transnational, intersectional, interdisciplinary, relational and reflexive. In particular, the author focuses on processes and practices of racialization as they impact on and are practised within the discipline. In the current backlash against feminism and women’s studies in different parts of Europe, f…
Afropessimism
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader
peer reviewed
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism
There are different ways in which black women in the Diaspora have given expression to their erotic fascination with other women. In this article two idealtypical expressions of black female homosexuality and the outlines of their underlying cosmologies are sketched: mati-ism and black lesbianism. Mati (or matisma) is the Sranan Tongo word for women who have sexual relations with other women, but who typically also will have had or still have rel…
Still Crazy after All Those Years
The author argues for passing on a particular brand of feminism to next generations. The cultural archive (after Said) to be passed on should be transnational, intersectional, interdisciplinary, relational and reflexive. In particular, the author focuses on processes and practices of racialization as they impact on and are practised within the discipline. In the current backlash against feminism and women’s studies in different parts of Europe, f…
The Politics of Passion
No Tide, No Tamara / Not Today, Not Tomorrow: Misi Juliette Cummings's Life History 2. Suriname, Sweet Suriname: A Political Economy of Gendered and Racialized Inequality 3. Winit, an Afro-Surinamese Religion and the Multiplicitous Self 4. Kon Sidon na mi Tapu.../ Then He Comes and Sits Down on Top of Me... Relationships Between Women and Men 5. Mati Work 6. Sexualitiy on the MoveNotes Works Cited Index
Thomas J. Sugrue, Not even Past. Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
With the title “Not even Past,” historian and sociologist Thomas J. Sugrue alludes to a motto used by Barack Obama in his most famous speech “A more perfect union,” held in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, when, pressured by the uproar around the sermons of his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, he positioned himself with regard to race. Obama himself borrowed the phrase from William Faulkner, who wrote “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not …
I had been thinking [her] thoughts for so long I thought they were mine’
White Innocence
All the energies poured into critical theory, into novel and demystifying theoretical praxes-have avoided the major, I would say the determining political horizon of modern Western culture, namely imperialism.Edward Said, "Secular Interpretation" "A Particular Knowledge . . ."This book is dedicated to an exploration of a strong paradox that is operative in the Netherlands and that, as I argue, is at the heart of the nation: the passion, forcefuln…
Decolonizing Knowledge of Black Queer Gender
Afropessimism
Vénus Noire
In this attractively written, handsomely illustrated volume, historian Robin Mitchell discusses the lives and representations of three Black women in nineteenth-century France in the context of the devastating loss of France's most profitable colony at the time: Saint-Domingue.It is telling of the large-scale depression that that loss sank France into, that the French held on to this name for a very long time, instead of adopting "Haiti," the nam…
How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader
peer reviewed
What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora
This essay tells a narrative of various contexts in the Afro-Surinamese diaspora that share a struggle around the meanings of Black. What happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese transatlantic diaspora? Some of the questions addressed are, Which terms have African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in dif…
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