Smash the Pillars : Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom.

Cover -- Smash the Pillars -- Smash the Pillars: Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom -- Copytight page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Intellectual Roots of Decoloniality -- Decolonizing the Dutch Kingdom and the Decolonial Imaginary of Color -- Book Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- The Space of Decoloniality -- Chapter 1 -- Untold Histories and New Waves of Black Resistance in the Netherlands -- The Dominant Discourse: The Taboo on Racism -- The Black Archives -- A New Wave of Resistance: Breaking the Taboo -- Not a Warm Welcome in the 1970s -- The New Generation: The Movement Against Black Pete -- A New Generation, A New Approach to Resistance -- Slavery as Unfinished Emancipation -- Chapter 2 -- From the Hollow of the Lion -- No Democratization without Decolonization -- An Agenda for Total Disorder -- Our Prefiguration -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Decoloniality and Black Heritage Tours -- Black Heritage Amsterdam Tours -- Chapter 4 -- Colonialism Begets Coloniality -- Beginning -- Background -- Oppression -- Material History Matters -- The Contemporary Buffer -- Colonial Rule -- Domination -- Top-Down -- Finale -- Chapter 5 -- InterNational Anti-Racism Group versus the Netherlands' Sesame Street, Twenty-First Century Blackface, and Public Television -- Chapter 6 -- Reclaiming Our Voices -- The Innocence of a Black Child -- Restaging the (Post)Colonial Scene -- Structural Discrimination in the Educational System -- It is Time to Kick-Out Zwarte Piet -- Chapter 7 -- On Agency and Belonging -- The White Man's Burden -- The Dirk Bag Principle -- Brouwn and Brown -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Hymn to the Night, from Fear to Freedom -- Decolonial Dutch Episteme -- Chapter 9 -- Layers of Emancipation Struggles -- Sovereignty, Master Narratives and Collateral Damage -- From Sovereignty to Religious, Class and Gender Emancipations.

Black Mobilization in the Shadows of History -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 -- Catching the Dutch Double Bind -- The Statuut and Double Binds -- Logical Types, Equivalence, and Masters of Concealment -- Catch 22 and Schizophrenia -- The Outsiders' View -- Decolonizing Methodologies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 -- Acknowledging the Non-Ordinary Dimensions of Decoloniality -- Business as Usual -- Back to My Routes -- Decolonial Work Attentive to the Non-Ordinary -- Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Chapter 12 -- White Innocence in the Netherlands -- A Genealogy of White Innocence -- The Reception of White Innocence -- Sylvana Simons -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 13 -- White Order, Corporate Capital, and Control of Mobility in the Netherlands -- Bodies of Dirt-Threatening Mobilities -- The Freedom, Security and Prosperity Circuit -- Chances of Black/ened Life in a White Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 14 -- "Activism" and (the Afterlives of) Dutch Colonialism -- Situating Critique -- Traditions and Terminologies -- Monuments and Visual Representations -- Knowledge and Cinematographic Representations -- Colonial War Crimes and Legal Redress -- To Conclude -- Notes -- Chapter 15 -- Decoloniality of Memory and Anti-Black Racism -- Note -- Chapter 16 -- Decolonizing the Islamic Other -- The Power of Normalization -- The Dutch Angle -- Normalized Distance -- Invention of the Political and Engaged Scholarship -- Reflexive Zones of Interaction -- Conclusion -- Continued Exercises of Decolonization -- The Decolonial Imaginary of Color -- Our Decolonial Position -- Onze Culpa -- Recommendations, Or, How to Smash the Pillars -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Smash the Pillars explores the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory and resist the physical, epistemological, and psychological violence imposed by the Dutch state, its institutions, and dominant narratives.

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