Gloria Wekker

Afro-Surinamese Dutch anthropologist whose research interests include enduring colonial legacies and the persistence of racism in the contemporary Netherlands as well as diasporic dynamics. Examining the Afro-Surinamese European roots of intersectionality, Wekker has written on women’s sexuality in Black communities. Her seminal work, White Innocence. Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Duke University Press 2016), interrogates the construction of Dutch identity centered on whiteness that is divorced from the violent aspects of Dutch imperialism.