Yannick Coenders
Biographic Data
| ID | 171318 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yannick Coenders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yannick |
| FAMILY NAME | Coenders |
| SIGNATURE | COENDERS Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9479-6008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assimilationism and the denial of everyday racism
How do nonwhite people come to disavow their everyday experience of racism? This article describes “racialized assimilationism” – a discursive formation that predicates the promise of national belonging on essentializing notions of cultural similarity and difference – to expand Philomena Essed’s framework of “everyday racism” with conceptual tools to understand everyday racism’s denial. Leveraging interview materials from Essed’s study in the Net…
Colonial recursion
Metahistory as diaspora practice
Challenging dominant historical narratives that gloss over the history of colonialism and slavery, black collectives in the Netherlands are increasingly turning to the history of history writing (metahistory) by black radical thinkers. Counter histories in which transatlantic slavery features central, serve to situate ongoing practices of institutional racism and to articulate claims to citizenship and national memory. Placing different mobilizat…
Never Having Been Racist
The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the …
Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy
A centrepiece of the Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, the blackface character Black Pete, has met with growing contestation in the past decade over its caricatural representation of people of African descent. Attacks on this national “happy object” elicited a host of majority responses that converged in professing non‐racism. As the celebration is primarily thought of as a children's festival, schools across the Netherlands had to decide whether to…
Metahistory as diaspora practice
Challenging dominant historical narratives that gloss over the history of colonialism and slavery, black collectives in the Netherlands are increasingly turning to the history of history writing (metahistory) by black radical thinkers. Counter histories in which transatlantic slavery features central, serve to situate ongoing practices of institutional racism and to articulate claims to citizenship and national memory. Placing different mobilizat…
Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy
A centrepiece of the Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, the blackface character Black Pete, has met with growing contestation in the past decade over its caricatural representation of people of African descent. Attacks on this national “happy object” elicited a host of majority responses that converged in professing non‐racism. As the celebration is primarily thought of as a children's festival, schools across the Netherlands had to decide whether to…
Colonial recursion
Race and the Pitfalls of Emotional Democracy
A centrepiece of the Dutch festival of Sinterklaas, the blackface character Black Pete, has met with growing contestation in the past decade over its caricatural representation of people of African descent. Attacks on this national “happy object” elicited a host of majority responses that converged in professing non‐racism. As the celebration is primarily thought of as a children's festival, schools across the Netherlands had to decide whether to…
Never Having Been Racist
The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the …
Metahistory as diaspora practice
Challenging dominant historical narratives that gloss over the history of colonialism and slavery, black collectives in the Netherlands are increasingly turning to the history of history writing (metahistory) by black radical thinkers. Counter histories in which transatlantic slavery features central, serve to situate ongoing practices of institutional racism and to articulate claims to citizenship and national memory. Placing different mobilizat…
Colonial recursion
Assimilationism and the denial of everyday racism
How do nonwhite people come to disavow their everyday experience of racism? This article describes “racialized assimilationism” – a discursive formation that predicates the promise of national belonging on essentializing notions of cultural similarity and difference – to expand Philomena Essed’s framework of “everyday racism” with conceptual tools to understand everyday racism’s denial. Leveraging interview materials from Essed’s study in the Net…
Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)