The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies.
The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker. Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments in epistemology and methodology, conceptualizations of sexuality, and mapping of the connections between race, gender, and empire. These writings demonstrate Wekker’s theoretical and political prowess, illuminating how her scholarship was foundational in shifting the fields of anthropology, feminist and queer studies, and Black diasporic studies. Featuring a foreword by Angela Y. Davis, engaging with The Gloria Wekker Reader is an invitation for interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue to inspire political action.
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"If youre new to Gloria Wekkers work, as I was, this volume of interviews, essays, letters, and more will be an excellent introduction to the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist."Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword / Angela Y. Davis xi
Introduction: Gloria WekkerCrafting Alternative Cultural Archives, Shaping
Biracial Intimacies / Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder 1
Part I: Sexuality on the Move
Introduction / Roderick Ferguson 25
Tower of Babel on the Suriname River (1997) 29
1. Sexuality on the Move 31
2. Whats Identity Got to Do with It? Rethinking Identity in Light of the
Mati Work in Suriname 73
3. Afro-Surinamese Womens Sexual Culture and the Long Shadow of the Past
93
4. One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical
Agency 113
5. Politics and Passion: In Conversation with Gloria Wekker / Andil Gosine
143
6. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of
Race, 1917 155
Part II. Black Europe
Introduction / Gail Lewis 187
Denial 195
7. Survivors: Portrait of the Group Sister Outsider 197
8. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe 209
9. What Happens to Black Africa in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic
Diaspora? 223
10. Afropessimism 233
Part III. The Cultural Archive
Introduction / Sudeep Dasgupta 249
Acknowledgment 253
11. How Families Navigate Empire 255
12. Introduction to White Innocence 263
13. A Wind-Swept Plain: The History of Gender and Ethnicity-Thought in the
Netherlands (with Helma Lutz) 297
14. White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical
Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker, Nella van den Brandt, Lieke
Schrijvers, Amal Miri, and Nawal Mustafa 325
15. Diving into the Wreck: Exploring Intersections of Sexuality, Race,
Gender, and Class in the Dutch Cultural Archive 343
16. Building Nests in a Windy Place: Thinking on Gender and Ethnicity in the
Netherlands 365
Part IV: Transnational Feminism
Introduction / Fatima El-Tayeb 385
Transatlantic 389
17. Naming Ourselves as Black Women in Europe: An African American-German
and Afro-Dutch Conversation (with Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck) 391
18. A Letter to Audre Lorde 411
19. Still Crazy After All Those Years . . . Feminism for the New Millennium
413
20. How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader?: Beyond White
Innocence in the Academy 427
21. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears
(with M. Jacqui Alexander and Gail Lewis) 443
Contributors 465
Index 467
Gloria Wekker is Emeritus Professor of Gender and Ethnicity at Utrecht University. She is the author of White Innocence, published by Duke University Press, as well as The Politics of Passion.
Chandra Frank is Assistant Professor of Womens Gender & Sexuality Studies and the 20242027 Taft Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Cincinnati.
Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian and an independent researcher, writer and curator.
Mikki Stelder is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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