White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

Author/Contributor(s):	Wekker, Gloria
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/29/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.