The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker. Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments in epistemology and methodology, conceptualizations of sexuality, and mapping of the connections between race, gender, and empire. These writings demonstrate Wekker’s theoretical and political prowess, illuminating how her scholarship was foundational in shifting the fields of anthropology, feminist and queer studies, and Black diasporic studies. Featuring a foreword by Angela Y. Davis, engaging with The Gloria Wekker Reader is an invitation for interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue to inspire political action.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
- Introduction: Gloria Wekker—Crafting Alternative Cultural Archives, Shaping Radical Intimacies by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder
- Part I: Sexuality on the Move
- Introduction by Roderick Ferguson
- “Tower of Babel on the Suriname River”
- 1. Sexuality on the Move
- 2. What’s Identity Got to Do with It? Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname
- 3. Afro-Surinamese Women’s Sexual Culture and the Long Shadows of the Past
- 4. One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency
- 5. Politics and Passion: In Conversation with Gloria Wekker by Andil Gosine
- 6. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917
- Part II: Black Europe
- Introduction by Gail Lewis
- “Denial”
- 7. Survivors: Portrait of the Group Sister Outsider
- 8. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe
- 9. What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?
- 10. Afropessimism
- Part III: The Cultural Archive
- Introduction by Sudeep Dasgupta
- “Acknowledgement”
- 11. How Families Navigate Empire
- 12. Introduction to White Innocence
- 13. A Wind-Swept Plain: The History of Gender and Ethnicity-Thought in the Netherlands coauthored with Helma Lutz
- 14. White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker by Nella van den Brandt, Lieke Schrijvers, Amal Miri, and Nawal Mustafa
- 15. Diving into the Wreck: Exploring Intersections of Sexuality, “Race,” Gender, and Class in the Dutch Cultural Archive
- 16. Building Nests in a Windy Place: Thinking About Gender and Ethnicity in the Netherlands
- Part IV: Transnational Feminism
- Introduction by Fatima El-Tayeb
- “Transatlantic”
- 17. Naming Ourselves as Black Women in Europe: An African American–German and Afro-Dutch Conversation coauthored with Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck
- 18. A Letter to Audre Lorde
- 19. Still Crazy After All Those Years . . . Feminism for the New Millennium
- 20. “How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader?” Beyond White Innocence in the Academy
- 21. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears coauthored with M. Jacqui Alexander and Gail Lewis
- Contributors
- Index
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