{"id":37002,"date":"2014-08-09T16:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37002"},"modified":"2014-12-21T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:41:28","slug":"mixed-race-kids-a-new-phenomenon-in-the-netherlands-we-think-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37002","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/mixed-race-kids-a-new-phenomenon-in-the-netherlands-we-think-not\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Is a Country<\/a><br \/>\n2014-06-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chandra Frank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mieke Weisemann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week cultural centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debalie.nl\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">de Balie<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amsterdam\" target=\"_blank\">Amsterdam<\/a> will be hosting an event titled \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.debalie.nl\/agenda\/programma\/(on)zichtbaar-gemengd%3a-lovingday.nl-2014\/e_9490988\/p_11632868\/\" target=\"_blank\">LovingDay.nl: (In)visibly Mixed<\/a>\u2019 on \u201cmixed race\u201d families and relationships (BTW, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netherlands\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> uncritically accepts this terminology, along with the assumption that certain people are \u201cpure\u201d and others are \u201cmixed\u201d, thereby reifying 19th century race theories). Loving Day takes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=415\" target=\"_blank\">end of anti-miscegenation laws in America in 1967<\/a> as its starting point to celebrate the growing number of mixed couples and children in the Netherlands. Mixed children are a growing phenomenon in the Netherlands (up from 30% to 37% from 2007 in Amsterdam) but oddly, the program claims, this growth is not visible in Dutch policy or imaging of the Dutch identity.<\/p>\n<p>Being designated as \u201cmixed race\u201d ourselves, we don\u2019t deny that there\u2019s a lot to talk about, but we were mildly surprised to see that this program completely ignores the historical and socio-economical context of mixed race identities within Dutch colonial history. We say mildly, because it wouldn\u2019t be the first time the Dutch conveniently forgot about their colonial adventures. There were clear strategies to instill and secure Dutch \u201cpurity\u201d and a cultural sense of belonging in both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesia<\/a>. But of course, there were those \u201cOthers\u201d that produced in both former colonies. Indos (people of mixed Indonesian European descent) have existed within the former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_East_Indies\" target=\"_blank\">Dutch-East Indies<\/a> (and thus the Netherlands) for over 300 years, and the same can be said about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9281\" target=\"_blank\">Coloured<\/a> community in South Africa. Let\u2019s not forget that there were and has been strong Dutch policy surrounding and creating these \u201cmixed\u201d identities beginning with the colonial period and existing well into the present&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/mixed-race-kids-a-new-phenomenon-in-the-netherlands-we-think-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not. Africa Is a Country 2014-06-11 Chandra Frank Mieke Weisemann This week cultural centre de Balie in Amsterdam will be hosting an event titled \u2018LovingDay.nl: (In)visibly Mixed\u2019 on \u201cmixed race\u201d families and relationships (BTW, the Netherlands uncritically accepts this terminology, along with the assumption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,8],"tags":[16443,17698,17697,4951],"class_list":["post-37002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-africa-is-a-country","tag-chandra-frank","tag-mieke-weisemann","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}