Smash the Pillars

Melissa F. Weiner is associate professor of sociology at The College of the Holy Cross. Antonio Carmona Báez is president of the University of St. Martin, at Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.

• IntroductionMelissa F. Weiner and Antonio Carmona BáezPart I: The Space of Decoloniality1. Untold Histories and New Waves of Black Resistance in the Netherlands Mitchell Esajas2. From the Hollow of the Lion: A Testimony of Revolt at the University of AmsterdamThe University of Colour (Amandla Awethu!, Tirza Balk, Inez Blanca van der Scheer, Emma van Meyeren, Alfrida Martis, and Nguyễn Nam Chi)3. Decoloniality and Black Heritage ToursJennifer Tosch4. Colonialism Begets Coloniality: A Case Study of Sint Eustatius, Caribbean NetherlandsTeresa E. Leslie5. InterNational Anti-Racism Group vs. the Netherlands’ Sesame Street, 21st Century Blackface, and Public TelevisionGloria Holwerda-Williams6. Reclaiming Our Voices: The Anti-Black Pete Movement from a Black Woman’s PerspectiveJessica de Abreu7. On Agency and BelongingQuinsy Gario8 Hymn to the Night, from Fear to FreedomTeresa Maria Díaz NerioPart II: Decolonial Dutch Episteme9. Layers of Emancipation Struggles: Some Reflections on the Dutch CaseKwame Nimako10. Catching the Dutch Double BindLianne Leonora11. Acknowledging the Non-Ordinary Dimensions of Decoloniality: The Case of the Kingdom of the NetherlandsFrancio Guadeloupe12. White Innocence in the NetherlandsGloria Wekker13. White Order, Corporate Capital, and Control of Mobility in the NetherlandsEgbert Alejandro Martina and Patricia Schor14. “Activism” and (the Afterlives of) Dutch ColonialismGuno Jones15. Decoloniality of Memory and Anti-Black RacismArtwell Cain16. Decolonizing the Islamic Other: The Changed Conditions of Critical ThinkingHalleh GhorashiConclusions: Smashing the PillarsMelissa F. Weiner and Antonio Carmona Báez

This is a tour de force in Decolonial Studies. The myth of Dutch tolerance is demolished. Dutch political complicity with racial/colonial domination is very well analyzed and made explicit in this book. A must to read!