Kwakoe, Baba and Mai: Revisiting Dutch Colonialism in Suriname

Three hundred and twenty years of European colonialism in Suriname have resulted in the presence of large African and South Asian communities in this Caribbean country. Having gained formal independence relatively recently (in 1975), British and Dutch colonial politics have shaped many aspects of its socio-political and cultural life. This paper investigates the extent of and the ways in which processes of racialization of African and South Asian communities have been forged by a racial schema imposed by a system of white supremacy under colonialism. The paper analyses two statues in the capit... Mehr ...