Black Man in the Netherlands: An Afro-Antillean Anthropology

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Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist by vocation, he is a keen observer by honed habit. In his new book, he wields both personal and anthropological observations. Simultaneously memoir and astute exploration, Black Man in the Netherlands charts Guadeloupe’s coming of age and adulthood in a Dutch world and movingly makes a global contribution to the understanding of anti-Black racism. Guadeloupe identifies the intersections among urban popular culture, racism, and multiculturalism in youth culture in the Netherlands and the wider Dutch Kingdom. He probes the degrees to which traditional ethnic division collapses before a rising Dutch polyethnicity. What comes to light, given the ethnic multiplicity that Afro-Antilleans live, is their extraordinarily successful work in forging an anti-racist Dutch identity via urban popular culture. This alternative way of being Dutch welcomes the Black experience as global and increasingly local Black artists find fame and even idolization. Black Man in the Netherlands is a vivid extension of renowned critical race studies by such Marxist theorists as Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, and C. L. R. James, and it bears a palpable connection to such Black Atlantic artists as Peter Tosh, Juan Luis Guerra, and KRS-One. Guadeloupe explores the complexities of Black life in the Netherlands and shows that within their means, Afro-Antilleans often effectively contest Dutch racism in civic and work life. Cover BLACK MAN IN THE NETHERLANDS Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface Introduction, or Rather, the Question PART 1: MY WORLD: ON URBAN POPULAR CULTURE AND CONVIVIALITY Chapter 1: The Beginning of an Answer Chapter 2: The Secure Dutch World of My Teenage Years Chapter 3: Appreciating Dutch Caribbean Ways of Being in the Netherlands PART 2: THE OUTSIDE WORLD: DEALING WITH ANTI-BLACK RACISM Chapter 4: The Hostile Outside World in the Netherlands Chapter 5: Will You Join Tarzan in Saving Us from the Unruly Multiculture? Chapter 6: Another Route: Multicultural Social Parenting Chapter 7: An Unfinished Project PART 3: MY WORLD EMERGING IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD: URBAN POPULAR CULTURE AND THE QUESTION OF RACE Chapter 8: The Coming of Age of Urban Popular Culture Chapter 9: Enter Urban Blackness Chapter 10: Performances of Urban Blackness in the Netherlands Chapter 11: The Transformation of Koen and Judmar Chapter 12: What Exactly Is This Thing Called Race Today? By Way of Conclusion, or Rather, Another Question: What Time Is It? Notes Bibliography ABOUT THE AUTHOR