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How does a nation, that denies its history of racism and claims to be colourblind, deal with the racial stereotype of Zwarte Piet? In this section you can find several images that show, deny, neglect, protest, present, discuss and challenge this racist character.

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Black Pete is Blackface

“Black is Beautiful” a.k.a. The cultural appropriation of anti-racism protest by angry white men.

Apeldoorn Black is Beautiful Black Lives Matter cultural appropriation Erwin Wagensveld Fresku Geert Wilders KOZP Mitchell Esajas Pegida Power to the people Sandew Hira Twitter Vlaams Belang Willy Keurig Zwarte Piet Matters

Found on Twitter; @geertwilderspvv on June 5, 2020

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Black Pete is Blackface

“Black is beautiful” a.k.a. Turning the stereotype around

Curacao De Nieuwe Sint Fresku history of resistance John Helsloot Panorama white face

Found on Trouw.nl (image by Sinaya Wolfert)

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Black Pete is Blackface

“…Wie stout is de roe.” a.k.a. the roots of ‘Black Pete’ lie in the devil

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Black Pete is Blackface

“Wie zoet is krijgt lekkers…” a.k.a. How candy and exotic delicacies are use to display racial stereotypes

Banania Bloodorange cheese chocolate coffee exotic foods licorice Nutella products from the colonies race as a commodity slavery Syrup waffle

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Black Pete is Blackface

Silly Pete…

Bram Bakker Coon Disney Uncle Remus

Quote by Bram Bakker, famous Dutch psychiatrist. Found in: AD, December 30, 2014, p13

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Black Pete is Blackface

Our dirty little secret…

Adult Swim CNN Hema KesselsKramer London Make-up Roger Ross Williams United Kingdom

Sinterklaas pops up London

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Black Pete is Blackface

White Master and Black Servant

degradation Jan Schenkman noble savage servant slavery Stuart Hall

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Black Pete is Blackface

The uncanny resemblance between the ‘pakjesboot’ and ‘Brookes’ slave ship

Bob Marley Brookes Slave Ship Charlotte Dematons cultural archive flags folklore Ineke Schouten Jan Schenkman Neville Garrick Rotterdam Sailor slave ship steamboat Survival transatlantic slavetrade

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Black Pete is Blackface

Zwart van Roet (black of soot): the blacker, the dirtier a.k.a. Washing the Blackamoor White

brown chimney-sweep Dove English Imperialism Pears racism The Netherlands Washing the blackamoor white

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Black Pete is Blackface

“black skin, eyes rimmed in white, red lips and frizzy hair”

Golliwog musee des arts decoratifs picaninny

Close up of the image of Black Pete found on a poster in Antwerp (BE), October 2019

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Black Pete is Blackface

Gerda Havertong’s powerful message in Sesame Street 1987

children counter narrative education Gerda Havertong institutional racism Pino Public broadcasting stereotypes Television The Netherlands white innocence

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Black Pete is Blackface

Sherman Fleming’s UN/SUB The Hunt for Black Peter (1995)

Still from: UN/SUB; the Hunt for Black Peter by Sherman Fleming (1995)

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Black Pete is Blackface

Prelude: “It’s that time of the year again…”

Black Pete folklore / folktales representation stereotypes Stuart Hall

Stop BlackFace by Sylvana Simons

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