Gloria Wekker Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker is a social and cultural anthropologist, specializing in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, African American Studies and Caribbean Studies. Wekker has held the Aletta (IIAV)-chair on Gender and Ethnicity at the Faculty of the Arts of Utrecht University from 2001 till 2016. She is the coordinator of the one-year MA programme Comparative Women’s Studies in Culture and Politics as well as the director of GEM, the expertise center on Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturality in higher education at the same university.
Her research interests include the following themes: constructions of sexual subjectivity in the Black Diaspora; the history of the black, migrant- and refugee Women’s Movement in the Netherlands; gendered and ethnicized knowledge systems in the Dutch academy and society; and Higher Education in the Netherlands. In April 2006, Columbia University Press published The Politics of Passion; Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora for which she received the Ruth Benedict Prize of the American Anthropological Association (2007). Another recent publication which she co-authored is Je hebt een kleur, maar je bent Nederlands. Identiteitsformaties van geadopteerden van kleur (with C. Asberg, van der Tuin, I. en N. Frederiks, Utrecht University 2007). One of her most influential books was White Innocence. Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race (Duke University Press, 2016), about the way in which race, gender and ethnicity interact.
Wekker participates in the development of multicultural and anti-racist gender theory in the Netherlands. Within Gender Studies, she situates herself as a representative of intersectional and transnational gender theory. In addition, Wekker writes poetry and prose and is on the editorial board of several international journals in the fields of Queer and Feminist Studies and the Social Sciences.
- Profiel van Gloria Wekker op de website van Universiteit Utrecht
- Duke University Press - White Innocence
