Unsettling Knowledge #14: Black Man in the Netherlands: A Book Talk with Francio Guadeloupe

Host: Rachel Gillett
Guests: Francio Guadeloupe, Makeda Ferguson.
Audio Editor: Stephan Venmans
Technical Assistance: Hans Schuurman

In this episode Rachel Gillett, your host, and Makeda Ferguson, secretary of the African and Caribbean Heritage Network at Utrecht University, discuss the book Black Man in the Netherlands: An Afro-Antillean Anthology with author and public intellectual, Francio Guadeloupe. The author describes his work as “a sweet and sour urban tune heralding an antiracist future.” Rachel and Makeda discuss with him what that means and how one can have racism while contesting “race.” We think together about how “urban tunes” reflect complex social dynamics in the Caribbean-Netherlands which the book shows is an Atlantic ocean space linking Europe and the Caribbean, shaped by past colonization, and continued entanglements and exchanges.

To buy the book you can can order direct from University of Mississippi Press, from your online bookseller – or – best of all check if your local bookstore.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Black-Man-in-the-Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/equality-diversity-inclusion/african-and-caribbean-heritage-network
https://www.decolonisationgroup.com/
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/u/f.e.guadeloupe/f.e.guadeloupe.html?cb

As we come to the end of 2022 do revisit our previous episodes from racism in sports – timely during the world cup – to our recent special feature episode, on Utrecht University’s Incluusion program, designed to transition refugees into Utrecht’s educational programs. We invite you to respond to our work via our Unsettling Knowledge Podcast page on Facebook, and follow us via the The Decolonisation Group website and twitter feed: @DecolGroupUU