Ah, what a lovely cover for this brochure “Mentoring Projects and Migrant Youth”. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy just looking at it.
Dutch media and the fabrication of false (racial) consciousness
A day doesn’t go by without some Dutch mass media reminding us that “racism is in the eye of the beholder” or some such similar …
Non Western economies as wild animals
I just got an email advertising the conference “Africa Works”. The first sentence in their website illustrates the premise behind the event: Africa in the …
Depressing fact
Yesterday I posted about the poem that was going to be read at the Holocaust Remembrance until survivors protested. The poem was an apologist attempt …
Hegemony, cultural imperialism and ecumenical initiatives
I’m going to say this until my last breath: nothing exists in a vacuum. Nothing exists isolated from centuries of prior events, histories, political developments, …
“The most qualified people to talk about race in The Netherlands”
Yesterday I attended a presentation at the University of Amsterdam about race, racism and memory politics. I don’t think I can write about this with …