Auteur(s)

Charl Landvreugd

Editor(s)

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Jonas Staal, SAJ

Uitgever, jaar

Santa Barbara (CAL) : punctum books, 2026

Omvang

240 p., 20 cm.

ISBN

978-1-68571-288-4

In Dutch Afro Becomings, artist, curator, and researcher Charl Landvreugd argues that we do not yet have a language to understand Dutch Afro-ness, and that it is insufficient to rely on the discourses developed in African American, Black British, or Caribbean cultural theory alone. This critical monograph on continental European Black art and cultural history articulates the specificity of Dutch Afro-ness and the way that Blackness has been translated and (mis)understood across multiple decades of cultural policy, while also providing an incisive analysis of the Dutch state’s aim to showcase “diversity” in a way that is comfortable to the white cultural class, without ever addressing issues of racism or race.

Trefwoorden

postkolonisatie , black art

Geografische locatie

Nederland / Netherlands

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur

Opmerkingen

punctum books was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Barbara, co-directed by Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. It is an independent queer- and scholar-led open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing. Three primary concentrations for the publisher are (1) books that shift the paradigm in established disciplines; (2) books that help to create emerging transdisciplinary fields; and (3) books that play in the fields of creatively speculative thought.