Keti Koti boekselectie (2024) Bookshop Selection: 1 July Keti Koti 2024
Join us as we commemorate Keti Koti, the celebration of the abolition of slavery in Suriname and the Dutch Antilles on Monday, July 1, 2024. Ahead of this significant day, Framer Framed is offering six book recommendations from our bookstore. These selections explore the interconnected histories of slavery’s abolition and the various anti-colonial struggles across Africa, highlighting solidarities and a global fight against oppression. These thought-provoking narratives explore the profound and long-lasting effects of these movements on our collective quest for justice and equality.
In light of this, Framer Framed (incl. our office) is closed on 1 July, but you are welcome to visit our exhibitions and bookshop on 2 July.
Archival Textures: Amplifying
- Edited by Setareh Noorani and Tabea Nixdorff
Archival Textures: Amplifying brings together archival materials that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherlands. These materials were researched at the collection of the International Archive for the Women’s Movement (IAV) at Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History in Amsterdam. They are framed by an introductory essay by Setareh Noorani and Tabea Nixdorff as well as an intergenerational roundtable conversation.
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Weaving Networks: Interwoven Histories of Solidarity
- by Contemporary And (C&), The Black Archives, and Gloria Kiconco
This publication is a special print of ContemporaryAnd magazine in collaboration with The Black Archives, Amsterdam, from the framework of documenta fifteen. The edition, published in both Dutch and English, comes from the series, Weaving Networks. The writer of this edition, Gloria Kiconco travelled to Amsterdam and spent time with the team of The Black Archives – who educate and organise a lot within the context of Keti Koti – in their context to get a sense of their visions, practice and communities.
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Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism
- by Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nagdee
- Race to the Bottom traces our current crisis back decades, illuminating why – despite antiracist movements being more mainsream than ever – racism still ever-present in our society. The authors call for recovering radical histories of antiracist struggle, championing modern activism and infusing them with the urgency of our times: replacing anxieties over ‘unconscious bias’ and rival claims for ‘representation’ with the struggle for a new, socialist, multi-racial organising from below.
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The Universal Machine, Stolen Life
- by Fred Moten
Fred Moten’s triumphant trilogy, consent not to be a single being are a series of essays and musings that come together to critical comment of the sociality of blackness. Stolen Life undertakes an expansive exploration of blackness as it relates to black life and the collective refusal of social death whilst in the concluding volume The Universal Machine, Moten explores questions of freedom, capture, and selfhood within his theorisation of blackness.
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Dear Science and Other stories
- by Katherine McKittrick
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration.
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Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
- by Priyamvada Gopal
Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims of empire and subsequent beneficiaries of its crises of conscience but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free.
Our bookshop, and the following titles, are curated in collaboration with KIOSK Rotterdam & Het Fort van Sjakoo.
Slavery / Bookshop Selection / Colonial history /
