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9 lut 2022 · This research investigates Black women’s lived experiences (Collins 2003) with racial abuse in the Netherlands and describes the subtle forms of organizing outside of activist spaces that are often overlooked in discussions about anti-racist work.
2 dni temu · In the opening pages of Afropean: Notes From Black Europe (2020), writer and photographer Johny Pitts introduces the reader to the term that underscores his writing on the lives of the Black community in Europe. According to Pitts, the word “Afropean” creates a space where “Blackness was taking part in shaping European identity” rather than viewing them as two hyphenated entities.
25 lut 2021 · Up to date, the team of the project has captured more than 250 photo and video portraits representing over 110 ethnic groups from around the world and we decided to share their best photographs!
29 lis 2018 · Brown attributes “exploring black culture” in Amsterdam to the Black Heritage Tour, hanging out at the Jamaica Lounge, and joining groups such as the Amsterdam Black Women Meetup and the Curly Girl Movement, started by a Surinamese woman.
3 mar 2022 · 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.
12 lip 2020 · Every 5 December, white people in the Netherlands paint their faces black, apply red lipstick and pull on curly wigs to embody fictional festive character Black Pete.
11 mar 2020 · A new exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam tells the story of the black community in 17 th century Dutch society and how the portrayal of black figures in Western art reveals much about attitudes to race.
