Acknowledgments ix Foreword / Angela Y. Davis xi Introduction: Gloria Wekker--Crafting Alternative Cultural Archives, Shaping Biracial Intimacies / Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder 1 Part I: Sexuality on the Move Introduction / Roderick Ferguson Tower of Babel on the Suriname River (1997) 1. Sexuality on the Move 31 2. What's Identity Got to Do with It? Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname 73 3. Afro-Surinamese Women's Sexual Culture and the Long Shadow of the Past 93 4. One Finger Does Not Drink Okra Soup: Afro-Surinamese Women and Critical Agency 113 5. Politics and Passion: In Conversation with Gloria Wekker / Andil Gosine 143 6. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917 155 Part II.
Black Europe Introduction / Gail Lewis Denial 7. Survivors: Portrait of the Group Sister Outsider 197 8. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe 209 9. What Happens to Black Africa in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora? 223 10. Afropessimism 233 Part III. The Cultural Archive Introduction / Sudeep Dasgupta Acknowledgment 11. How Families Navigate Empire 255 12. Introduction to White Innocence 263 13.
A Wind-Swept Plain: The History of Gender and Ethnicity-Thought in the Netherlands (with Helma Lutz) 297 14. White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker, Nella van den Brandt, Lieke Schrijvers, Amal Miri, and Nawal Mustafa 325 15. Diving into the Wreck: Exploring Intersections of Sexuality, "Race," Gender, and Class in the Dutch Cultural Archive 343 16. Building Nests in a Windy Place: Thinking on Gender and Ethnicity in the Netherlands 365 Part IV: Transnational Feminism Introduction / Fatima El-Tayeb Transatlantic (1998) 17. Naming Ourselves as Black Women in Europe: An African American-German and Afro-Dutch Conversation (with Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck) 391 18. A Letter of Audre Lorde 411 19. Still Crazy After All Those Years .
Feminism for the New Millennium 413 20. "How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader?": Beyond White Innocence in the Academy 427 21. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears (with M. Jacqui Alexander and Gail Lewis) 443 Contributors 465 Index.