Smash the Pillars
Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom
Contributions by Artwell Cain, Antonio Carmona Báez, Jessica de Abreu, Teresa Maria Díaz Nerio, Mitchell Esajas, Quinsy Gario, Halleh Ghorashi, Francio Guadeloupe, Gloria Holwerda-Williams, Guno Jones, Lianne Leonora, Teresa E. Leslie, Egbert Alejandro Martina, Kwame Nimako founder and director of the Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam, Patricia Schor, Jennifer Tosch, University of Colour University of Colour, Amandla Awethu!, Tirza Balk, Inez Blanca van der Sche, Melissa F. Weiner, Gloria Wekker Edited by Melissa F. Weiner, Antonio Carmona Báez
Publication date:
13 June 2018Length of book:
276 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
238x158mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781498554251
Smash the Pillars builds on the efforts by scholars and activists to decolonize Dutch history and memory, as they resist the epistemological violence imposed by the state, its institutions, and dominant narratives. Contributions offer an unparalleled glimpse into decolonial activism in the Dutch kingdom and provide us with a new lens to view contemporary decolonial efforts. The book argues that to fully decolonize Dutch society, the current social organization in the Kingdom of the Netherlands relying on separate pillars for each religious and/or racial group, must be dismantled.
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!