Overview
In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life-the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia-to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege.
- | Author: Gloria Wekker
- | Publisher: Duke University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2016
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780822360759
- | ISBN-10: 0822360756