Black citizenship, Afropolitan critiques: vernacular heritage‐making and the negotiation of race in the Netherlands

• Published in: Social anthropology Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 609 - 625
• Main Author: Witte, Marleen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 01.11.2019
• Subjects: African diaspora; Alternatives; black citizenship; Black people; Black white relations; Citizenship; citoyenneté noire; Colonialism; Cultural heritage; diaspora africaine; Europe postcoloniale; fabrication d’héritage; Hegemony; heritage-making; Inequality; Migration; Negotiation; Politics; Population; postcolonial Europe; Postcolonialism; Primacy; Race; Race relations; Racial differences; Racial identity; Statehood; Youth; Netherlands; Europe

This paper offers a new perspective on the relationship between the contested terrain of race and the politics of heritage and belonging in postcolonial Europe. Presenting material from the Netherlands, I argue that instead of reproducing the dyadic white‐majority–black‐minority framework, we must s...