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The Gloria Wekker Reader
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The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker. Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments in epistemology and methodology, conceptualizations of sexuality, and mapping of the connections between race, gender, and empire. These writings demonstrate Wekker’s theoretical and political prowess, illuminating how her scholarship was foundational in shifting the fields of anthropology, feminist and queer studies, and Black diasporic studies. Featuring a foreword by Angela Y. Davis, engaging with The Gloria Wekker Reader is an invitation for interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue to inspire political action.
Title: The Gloria Wekker Reader
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The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist, Gloria Wekker.
Wekker is a preeminent scholar in feminist Black diaspora studies, especially known for her developments in epistemology and methodology, conceptualizations of sexuality, and mapping of the connections between race, gender, and empire.
These writings demonstrate Wekker’s theoretical and political prowess, illuminating how her scholarship was foundational in shifting the fields of anthropology, feminist and queer studies, and Black diasporic studies.
Featuring a foreword by Angela Y.
Davis, engaging with The Gloria Wekker Reader is an invitation for interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue to inspire political action.
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Introduction
Introduction
The introduction sets out Gloria Wekker’s groundbreaking interventions within the field of sexuality studies, and her specific focus on race, empire, and gender in the Dutch Kingdo...
Afropessimism
Afropessimism
This critical review by Gloria Wekker interrogates Frank B. Wilderson III’s Afropessimism, a hybrid of memoir and theory arguing that Black social death is foundational to human li...
How Families Navigate Empire
How Families Navigate Empire
In this reflective essay, Gloria Wekker engages with Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies, blending personal narrative with scholarly critique. Carby’s memoir, rooted in her British J...
Politics and Passion
Politics and Passion
Andil Gosine interviews Gloria Wekker about her book The Politics of Passion (2006). The interview discusses how Wekker broke new ground in presenting an analysis of mati work, a s...
Transnational Feminism
Transnational Feminism
In her introduction to part IV, “Transnational Feminism,” Fatima El-Tayeb argues that Gloria Wekker’s work is central to the theory and practice of transnational feminism in Europe...
Transatlantic
Transatlantic
In her poem “Transatlantic,” Gloria Wekker weaves together love and loss across the Black Atlantic....
Sexuality on the Move
Sexuality on the Move
In this chapter from her book The Politics of Passion, Gloria Wekker explores the ways in which that mati work is on the move transnationally. Taking women’s lives as points of dep...
Black Europe
Black Europe
In her introduction to part II, “Black Europe,” Gail Lewis stresses how Black Europe is an oxymoronic space, given the actual presence of millions of Black people in Europe and the...