Ah, what a lovely cover for this brochure “Mentoring Projects and Migrant Youth”. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy just looking at it.
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, …
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 …
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 …