The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy. Photo: Bora Şekerc Bookshop Selection: 1 Juli Keti Koti 2023
On 1 July 1863, Dutch slavery in Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles was abolished – in reality, the enslaved were forced to continue working for another ten years until 1873. The consequences of slavery still affect society today. On 24 June 2021, the petition ‘1 July should be a national holiday and commemoration day’ was launched by ‘Nederland Wordt Beter’, FunX and The Black Archives. More than 62.000 people signed the petition within a week, and the call to declare 1 July, also known as Keti Koti, a national holiday is getting louder every year.
This year, as we commemorate and celebrate 150 years of the abolition of slavery, Framer Framed recommends several books available at the Framer Framed Bookshop that provide must-read perspectives for anyone looking to better understand transatlantic slavery and the intersections of race, culture and global history.
In light of this, Framer Framed is closed on 1 July, but you are welcome to visit our exhibitions and bookshop on Sunday 2 July.
The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
by Kwame Nimako & Glenn Willemsen
€30
Interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of European populations in the implementation of policies that facilitated Atlantic slavery, and examine how European countries created and expanded laws that perpetuated colonisation.
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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
by Walter Rodney. Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
€24
Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and on the African continent. He was not only a witness of a Pan-African and socialist internationalism; in his efforts to build mass organizations, catalyse rebellious ferment, and theorize an anti-colonial path to self-emancipation, he can be counted among its prime authors. Decolonial Marxism records such a life by collecting previously unbound essays written during the world-turning days of Black revolution.
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle
by Katherine McKittrick
€26
In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women’s geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analysing diverse literatures and material geographies, McKittrick reveals how human geographies are a result of racialized connections, and how spaces that are fraught with limitation are under acknowledged but meaningful sites of political opposition.
Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and the everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade.
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
by Paul Gilroy
€15
A profound and enlightening exploration of the complex relationship between modernity, race, and identity. By examining the concept of double consciousness, Gilroy effectively addresses the complex legacies of slavery and colonisation on black political culture. Gilroy skilfully weaves together various thinkers and artists such as Adorno, Hendrix, hip-hop culture, Du Bois, Wright, Hegel, and more, providing a clear and eloquent analysis. This seminal work provides an invaluable perspective for anyone interested in understanding the intersections of race, culture, and global history.
Our bookshop, and the following titles, are curated in collaboration with KIOSK Rotterdam & Het Fort van Sjakoo.
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