This chapter focuses on continuities and changes in anti-racist politics and organizing in the Netherlands between 1970 and today. The author describes how this period is sometimes misunderstood as mostly a white phenomenon. The author argues that while the (dominantly) white Left played a key role in shaping a particular form of anti-racism—grounded in (the memory of) the struggle against national-socialism and fascism—it is important to give a more complex account of the diversity of and the struggles within political organizing against racism in this period. While antifascism and the struggle against small far-right political formations played a key role in this historical period, other articulations of anti-racism were also present: for instance, in the organization of postcolonial and leftist migrant (workers’) grassroots organizations, and in the struggle of Black, Migrant, Refugee (BMR) feminist activists and scholars. In these various articulations of the anti-racist struggle, it becomes evident that fundamental activist work was done that laid the groundwork for decolonial and intersectional organizing in contemporary anti-racism. With this, the chapter aims to make visible the often-ignored work by (racialized) activists, and also to point to how discourses and foci have changed in the last decades.

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Connecting the Waves: Continuities in Anti-Racist Activism in the Netherlands Since the 1970s

  • Vicky Pinheiro Keulers

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This chapter focuses on continuities and changes in anti-racist politics and organizing in the Netherlands between 1970 and today. The author describes how this period is sometimes misunderstood as mostly a white phenomenon. The author argues that while the (dominantly) white Left played a key role in shaping a particular form of anti-racism—grounded in (the memory of) the struggle against national-socialism and fascism—it is important to give a more complex account of the diversity of and the struggles within political organizing against racism in this period. While antifascism and the struggle against small far-right political formations played a key role in this historical period, other articulations of anti-racism were also present: for instance, in the organization of postcolonial and leftist migrant (workers’) grassroots organizations, and in the struggle of Black, Migrant, Refugee (BMR) feminist activists and scholars. In these various articulations of the anti-racist struggle, it becomes evident that fundamental activist work was done that laid the groundwork for decolonial and intersectional organizing in contemporary anti-racism. With this, the chapter aims to make visible the often-ignored work by (racialized) activists, and also to point to how discourses and foci have changed in the last decades.