African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Panneflek compares the academic achievement, as measured by the Standardized Achievement Test, of Seventh-day, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Public school sixth-graders in Curacao
351 p., Explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn Overzee: Een Familiezoektocht [Overseas Bloodline: A Family Search] (2002); Myra Römer's Het Geheim van Gracia [The Secret of Gracia] (2008). The Curaçaoan painters are: Jean Girigori (1948), Minerva Lauffer (1957) and Viviana (1972). The New York novels and performance text are: Black Artemis' Picture Me Rollin' (2005), Angie Cruz's Soledad (2003) and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Josefina Báez's Dominicanish (2000). The ways the women characters, figures, images and voices align to subvert gendered delineations as well as the stifling cultural and colonial imprints on their bodies and their selves in Curaçao and New York are central to the decolonizing project explored here.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Includes Explaining Dutch abolition / Gert Oostindie -- Long goodbye : Dutch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- Dutch case of antislavery : Late abolitions and élitist abolitionism / Maarten Kuitenbrouwer -- Dutch antislavery attitudes in a decline-ridden society, 1750-1815 / Angelie Sens -- Economic explanation of the late abolition of slavery in Suriname / Edwin Horlings -- Suriname and the abolition of slavery / Alex van Stipriaan -- Same old song? : perspectives on slavery and slaves in Suriname and Curac̦ao / Gert Oostindie -- Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British, and the Cape Colony / Robert Ross -- Slavery and the Dutch in Southeast Asia / Gerrit J. Knaap -- Ideology of free labor and Dutch colonial policy, 1830-1870 / Pieter C. Emmer -- Emancipations in comparative perspective : a long and wide view / Stanley L. Engerman.
The article discusses discrimination against free blacks and colored (mixed-race) people in the justice system of 18th-century Curaçao, then a colony of the Netherlands run by the Dutch West India Company. Two examples are examined, that of the Dutch prosecutor Hubertus Coerman, who complained of the situation to company directors in 1766, and the Curaçaoan free black woman Mariana Franko, who complained to the directors in the same year after being falsely accused of theft and banished from the colony. Differences between the administration of justice in the Netherlands and in the Dutch West Indies are then discussed.
