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...Sébastien Chauvin; Yannick Coenders; Timo Koren The accusation that Black Pete—the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival—is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s...

... In August 2004, a short film was broadcast on Dutch tele- vision that dealt with the theme of violence against women in Islamic societies. The key scene showed four topless women in transparent clothing; their bod- ies had been covered with calligraphically inscribed verses from the Koran...

... and St. Mark's Alexandria.” In Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture. London: Routledge. Gouda , Frances . 1995. Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies 1900–1942. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Jameson , Fredric . 1991...

...figure 1 Rehearsal in progress for How Anansi Freed the Stories of the World . Photographic credit: Milagro Elstak / The Dutch National Opera and Ballet. ...

..., 1960 . (Originally published 1881). van Amersfoort , Hans Immigration and the Formation of Minority Groups: The Dutch Experience 1945–1975 (trans. Robert Lyng), Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982 . (Originally published in Dutch 1974). Zolberg , Aristide...

... the following Why Papua Wants scene from my fieldwork on the movement that seeks independence for an admin- Freedom istrative region of Indonesia that was once, like Indonesia, a Dutch colony.3 The date was October 12, 2002, and I was seated in a conference room at a sports complex south of the Dutch...

... considerable media atten- tion during her brief stay in Paris. The Somali-­born immigrant turned Dutch politician now resided in the United States. In 2004 the fierce critique of Islam’s brutal oppression of women she developed in the eleven-­minute film Submission had caused violent reactions...

... inscriptions (prasasti). Discussing monumental styles in post-independence Indonesia, Benedict Anderson has noted that the realist figure of Jakarta's Liberation of West Irian Monument "symoblizes directly the liberation of the Irianese from Dutch colonial rule."1° Although this Sukarno-era monument...

... related to the Islamic presence in Europe (migrants, Turkish EU candidacy, and terrorism) played an equally decisive role in the shaping of public opinion. Both French republicanism and Dutch multiculturalism have been challenged by the ways Islam is Europeanized. As Islam becomes European...

... pinggir [Marginal notes]. Vol. 1 . Jakarta: Grafiti. ———. 1995 Aku [I]. In Catatan pinggir . Vol. 4 . Jakarta: Grafiti. Groeneboer, Kees. 1998 . Gateway to the West: The Dutch language in colonial Indonesia, 1600-1950: A history of language policy , translated by Myra Scholz. Amsterdam...

... bed. A fire had broken out in the market, and, like others residing close to it, the Bidwams had headed for higher ground. Semuel’s sister, Sally Bidwam, lived in a small brick house, built by the Dutch navy, in a hilltop neighborhood still known...

... and displacement through allotments of land to the Free Burghers. William Beinart (1994: 1) has suggested that between then and the early nineteenth centuries, communities of Khoesan had been “decimated and largely displaced.” During that period, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) divided the society...

... does not take account of this. It has its effects in the strange attempts at memorialization of that time. Today the celebration of the revolution shows brave Indonesians but rarely the Dutch they are supposedly confronting. A mystery, but solvable. JL: This series of interviews is largely about...

.... But as it turns out, that is precisely what they were not. A document in the Dutch colonial archives on labor policy stopped me short because it seemed to capture, better than anything else I had seen or read, some- thing...

... of race at the center of the discussion, evoking a religious history of racial capitalism. Finally, Sébastien Chauvin, Yannick Coenders, and Timo Koren continue the focus on race as they take on the Dutch case of “Black Pete”—a blackface character who serves as the basis of the enormously popular...

... or reception of its edible sculptures. In fact, the midnight buffet may have more in common with the Dutch still life, especially seventeenth-century pronk paintings (“pronk” meaning “to show off which offered lavish displays of food...

... or reception of its edible sculptures. In fact, the midnight buffet may have more in common with the Dutch still life, especially seventeenth-century pronk paintings (“pronk” meaning “to show off which offered lavish displays of food...

... that the overwhelming majority of refugee decisions are dealt with purely administratively; they never come before the courts or are documented in detail as a consequence. 39. In a 1989 Dutch case, for example, an Iranian woman who had...

... by the accep- 29. Parashuram [Rajshekhar Bosu], “Dakshinray,” in Kajjali (Calcutta: M. C. Sarkar and Sons, 1969), 65–66. The italicized English words are used in the original. 123 Public Culture tance of the ritual of “going Dutch...