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 …
“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 …
When did Gawker start reporting “fictional news”?
I mean, I get the snark and their overall hipster “beyond good and evil” tone, etc. I get that their “news reporting” is meant, however …
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 …
“Too radical for Dutch media”
And “unpublishable”. Those were the words of two editors from two separate major media outlets in The Netherlands in response to something I co-wrote about …
The nature of Tumblr and insidious changes in meaning
My Tumblr posts are not always very well thought out (well, not that my non Tumblr posts are, but that’s another topic altogether). I sometimes …