Smash the Pillars

Melissa F. Weiner is associate professor of sociology at The College of the Holy Cross. Antonio Carmona Báez is president of the University of St. Martin, at Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.

Introduction
Melissa F. Weiner and Antonio Carmona Báez

Part I: The Space of Decoloniality

1. Untold Histories and New Waves of Black Resistance in the Netherlands
Mitchell Esajas
2. From the Hollow of the Lion: A Testimony of Revolt at the University of Amsterdam
The University of Colour (Amandla Awethu!, Tirza Balk, Inez Blanca van der Scheer, Emma van Meyeren, Alfrida Martis, and Nguyễn Nam Chi)
3. Decoloniality and Black Heritage Tours
Jennifer Tosch
4. Colonialism Begets Coloniality: A Case Study of Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands
Teresa E. Leslie
5. InterNational Anti-Racism Group vs. the Netherlands’ Sesame Street, 21st Century Blackface, and Public Television
Gloria Holwerda-Williams
6. Reclaiming Our Voices: The Anti-Black Pete Movement from a Black Woman’s Perspective
Jessica de Abreu
7. On Agency and Belonging
Quinsy Gario
8 Hymn to the Night, from Fear to Freedom
Teresa Maria Díaz Nerio

Part II: Decolonial Dutch Episteme

9. Layers of Emancipation Struggles: Some Reflections on the Dutch Case
Kwame Nimako
10. Catching the Dutch Double Bind
Lianne Leonora
11. Acknowledging the Non-Ordinary Dimensions of Decoloniality: The Case of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Francio Guadeloupe
12. White Innocence in the Netherlands
Gloria Wekker
13. White Order, Corporate Capital, and Control of Mobility in the Netherlands
Egbert Alejandro Martina and Patricia Schor
14. “Activism” and (the Afterlives of) Dutch Colonialism
Guno Jones
15. Decoloniality of Memory and Anti-Black Racism
Artwell Cain
16. Decolonizing the Islamic Other: The Changed Conditions of Critical Thinking
Halleh Ghorashi
Conclusions: Smashing the Pillars
Melissa F. Weiner and Antonio Carmona Báez