Black Liberators
Mieke Kirkels – The Oral History of the Black Liberators
| By Jonathan Pieterse
There is one person who has done more than anyone else in the Netherlands to bring the stories of the Black Liberators into the light of day: Dutch oral historian Mieke Kirkels. She is the author of From Farmland […]
April 15, 2020
Marga Altena – Bringing Color to Dutch History
| By Jonathan Pieterse
Marga Altena wrote the text for the graphic novel Franklin – Een Nederlands Bevrijdingsverhaal (Franklin – A Dutch Liberation Story). She is a cultural historian who publishes about class and ethnicity like the book A True History Full of Romance. Mixed […]
April 8, 2020
Gloria Wekker – Suppressed Histories
| By Jonathan Pieterse
Gloria Wekker is an professor emeritus of Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Utrecht. In 2016 Duke University Press published White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, about racism in the Netherlands. She is Surinamese-Dutch. At the Institute […]
April 1, 2020
Kees Ribbens – Comics and Popular History
| By Jonathan Pieterse
Kees Ribbens is a big comic book fan. He has a large collection of comic books, many of them about World War II and so I interviewed him about his involvement with Franklin – A Dutch Liberation Story. He […]
March 25, 2020
Brian Elstak – Art, Racism and the Black Liberators
| By Jonathan Pieterse
For the first instalment of this blog about the Black Liberators, I interviewed Brian Elstak. Not only did he contribute to the Black Liberators exhibition at the NIOD (temporarily closed), he’s also the illustrator of the graphic novel Franklin […]
March 18, 2020