{"product_id":"the-gloria-wekker-reader-hardback-9781478029731","title":"The Gloria Wekker Reader (Hardback) 9781478029731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Gloria Wekker Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGloria Wekker (Author), Chandra Frank (Edited by), Nancy Jouwe (Edited by), Mikki Stelder (Edited by), Angela  Y. Davis (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478029731\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages, 8 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.844 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This impressive collection of Gloria Wekker’s work is essential reading for scholars and activists who want to strengthen their understanding of the complex ways in which the cauldrons of colonialism and the slave trade ignited forces responsible for capitalism and for the accompanying and equally tenacious structures of racism.\"—Angela Y. Davis, from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you’re new to Gloria Wekker’s work, as I was, this volume of interviews, essays, letters, and more will be an excellent introduction to the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist.\"—Karla J. Strand, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gloria Wekker Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Gloria Wekker Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is an invitation for interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue to inspire political action.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Foreword \/ Angela Y. Davis  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Gloria Wekker—\u003cbr\u003eCrafting Alternative Cultural Archives, Shaping Biracial Intimacies \/ Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Sexuality on the Move\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Roderick Ferguson  25\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eTower of Babel on the Suriname River”\u003cbr\u003e (1997)  29\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sexuality on the Move  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. What’\u003cbr\u003es Identity Got to Do with It? Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname  73\u003cbr\u003e 3. Afro-Surinamese Women’\u003cbr\u003es Sexual Culture and the Long Shadow of the Past  93\u003cbr\u003e 4. One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency  113\u003cbr\u003e 5. Politics and Passion: In Conversation with Gloria Wekker \/ Andil Gosine  143\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917  155\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Black Europe\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Gail Lewis  187\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eDenial”\u003cbr\u003e  195\u003cbr\u003e 7. Survivors: Portrait of the Group Sister Outsider  197\u003cbr\u003e 8. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe  209\u003cbr\u003e 9. What Happens to Black Africa in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?  223\u003cbr\u003e 10. Afropessimism  233\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Cultural Archive\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Sudeep Dasgupta  249\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgment”\u003cbr\u003e  253\u003cbr\u003e 11. How Families Navigate Empire  255\u003cbr\u003e 12. Introduction to \u003ci\u003eWhite Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e  263\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Wind-Swept Plain: The History of Gender and Ethnicity-Thought in the Netherlands (with Helma Lutz)  297\u003cbr\u003e 14. White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker, Nella van den Brandt, Lieke Schrijvers, Amal Miri, and Nawal Mustafa  325\u003cbr\u003e 15. Diving into the Wreck: Exploring Intersections of Sexuality, “\u003cbr\u003eRace,”\u003cbr\u003e Gender, and Class in the Dutch Cultural Archive  343\u003cbr\u003e 16. Building Nests in a Windy Place: Thinking on Gender and Ethnicity in the Netherlands  365\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Transnational Feminism\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Fatima El-Tayeb  385\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eTransatlantic”\u003cbr\u003e  389\u003cbr\u003e 17. Naming Ourselves as Black Women in Europe: An African American-German and Afro-Dutch Conversation (with Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck)  391\u003cbr\u003e 18. A Letter to Audre Lorde  411\u003cbr\u003e 19. Still Crazy After All Those Years . . . Feminism for the New Millennium  413\u003cbr\u003e 20. “\u003cbr\u003eHow Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader?”\u003cbr\u003e: Beyond White Innocence in the Academy 427\u003cbr\u003e 21. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears (with M. 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