“Dutch Racism is not Like Anywhere Else”: Refusing Color-Blind Myths in Black Feminist Otherwise Spaces

Despite myths of color-blindness in the Netherlands, Black women are marginalized by mainstream expectations of racial and cultural homogeneity. I use Amsterdam Black Women as a case study to illustrate the lived experiences of women affected by this exclusion. In this space, women freely critique Dutch society through mundane moments of truth-telling, venting, and joking, which enable individual problems to rise to a community level. I explore how subtle configurations of Black feminist organizing can be key sites of healing, experimentation, and political engagement. This research complicate... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Rose, Ariana
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Reihe/Periodikum: Gender & Society ; volume 36, issue 2, page 239-263 ; ISSN 0891-2432 1552-3977
Verlag/Hrsg.: SAGE Publications
Schlagwörter: Sociology and Political Science / Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) / Gender Studies
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26670729
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08912432221075098

Despite myths of color-blindness in the Netherlands, Black women are marginalized by mainstream expectations of racial and cultural homogeneity. I use Amsterdam Black Women as a case study to illustrate the lived experiences of women affected by this exclusion. In this space, women freely critique Dutch society through mundane moments of truth-telling, venting, and joking, which enable individual problems to rise to a community level. I explore how subtle configurations of Black feminist organizing can be key sites of healing, experimentation, and political engagement. This research complicates how we understand experiences of misogynoir when race consciousness is blended in a transnational context and how Amsterdam Black Women has made possible the refusal of Dutch norms that require members to accept their oppression silently and support false narratives of progressiveness and color-blindness.