NDT Forum on Anti-Discrimination

The NDT Forum on Anti-Discrimination (NDTFAD) is an employee-run platform that offers intentional space and time to read, listen, and view cultural material concerning inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. Our goal is to catalyze a more inclusive, nuanced conversation about experiences in our world by generating personal reflection through the content. The NDTFAD will illuminate various mediums (i.e., novels, films, podcasts) to engage critical and intersectional voices. We commit to creating a forum to share knowledge to empower All people in their fight for social and racial justice while bringing sexism, ableism, ageism, and sanism to light.

The inspiration behind this work has come from close colleagues who have also created their own interactive spaces, and my direct interactions with the NDT on various projects since May 2020. As a result, many of these titles recently disseminated knowledge on unequal power relations in the arts and culture and are valuable for our organization.

“The merits, pitfalls and purposes of the “anti-racist reading list”—and whom such lists are written by and for—have been hotly debated!” [Time Magazine]

Nevertheless, the NDTFAD aims to be a space to exchange ideas, moving beyond the reading list format. I hope this platform can be curated by your voice and constantly change with your ideas, and recommendations! Thanks to NDT colleagues Judith, Anne, Willemijn and Emily for their support, and a special thanks to Anthony Heidweiller, the African Studies Center – University of Leiden, and the University of Amsterdam Press.

Sincerely,
Prince Credell (he,him/hij,hem)
Policy Advisor Diversity & Inclusion

It’s easy! All the material below is sourced by NDT-employees for you to read, study, and watch. However, this is an ongoing and open platform, so we strongly encourage you to add any material you deem important! Tips can be sent to marketing@ndt.nl. Ideally you provide us with a link to the material in question, but if that’s not available, we will do our best to source it in other ways.

Don’t hesitate to contact us at marketing@ndt.nl with any questions or concerns.

The list of content is divided into the following subjects:

• Anti-Discrimination & Feminism
  Books / Articles / YouTube / Film, Series & Documentaries / Podcasts / Open-source guides & rescources for parents
• LGBTQIA+
• Dance
• Asian Authors
• Indigenous Authors
• On Asylum Seekers and Immigration
• On Disability
• Dutch Language Content and National Slavery Content

BOOKS

Articles

More articles:

• I’m Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism by Nicole Chung (May 27, 2021)
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

YouTube

Films, Series & Documentaries

Podcasts

More podcasts:

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White
• 1619 (New York Times)

Open-source guides & resources for parents

More open-source guides & resources for parents:

• Five Ways to Reduce Racial Bias in Your Children: How do we combat racial prejudice? New research reveals how parents influence the formation of bias in children.
• Helping Kids Process Violence, Trauma, and Race in a World of Nonstop News, from Common Sense: A conversation with Drs. Allison Briscoe-Smith, Jacqueline Dougé, and Nathan Chomilo.

More LGBTQIA+:

Books

• Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture) by Reina Gossett (Editor), Eric A. Stanley (Editor), Johanna Burton (Editor)

Articles

• “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” by Cohen, Cathy (1997)
• “The White to Be Angry” Vaginal Creme Davis’s Terrorist Drag.” In Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics:: University of Minnesota Press; By José Esteban Muñoz. (1999).
• “National Drag: The Language of Inclusion in RuPaul’s Drag Race.” In GLQ: A Journal for Lesbian and Gay Studies by Mark Goldmark (2015)
• “Gesture, Ephemera, and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance.” In Cruising Utopia: the then and there of queer futurity. New York: New York University Press. José Esteban Muñoz (2009).
• .“A Living Archive of Desire: Teresita la Campesina and the Embodiment of Queer Latino Community Histories.” In Antoinette Burton (ed.) Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and The Writing of History. Duke University Press; Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (2005)

Websites, Vimeo

• https://visualaids.org/
  Visual AIDS utilizes contemporary art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists and preserving a legacy through a large archive of art works, events and expos.
• https://stonewallforever.org/
  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the pivotal gay rights movement in history, the LGBTQIA+ Community Center of New York City (The Center) and Google Lab spearheaded the creation of Stonewall Forever, an interactive “living monument” to 50 years of Pride connecting diverse voices from the Stonewall era to the millions of voices in today’s LGBTQ community. (colorful pieces, digitized historical artifacts, oral histories from the movement, interviews with new voices of LGBTQIA+ equality, photos and messages from around the world.
• ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS is a short-film which is the 28th annual iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritizes Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven new and innovative short videos from artists Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia LaBeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Brontez Purnell.

More dance:

• The People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
• Hot Feet and Social Change : African Dance and Diaspora Communities by Thomas F. De Frantz
• The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
• Choreographing the Folk by Anthea Kraut
• The Human Body in Contemporary Dance: from Costumes to Nakedness by Maria Tsouvala* and Katia Savrami**

More Asian Authors:

• Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions edited by Rhacel S. Parreñas and Lok C. D. Siu
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
• Wild Swans, Jung Chang

More Indigenous Authors:

• river woman by Katherena Vermette
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
• Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod​

More On Asylum Seekers and Immigration:

• A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration, and Islamophobia in Europe by Liz Fekete
• Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances, edited by Óscar García Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen
• Documents by Jan Henry Gray
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

More On Disability:

• Feminist Disability Studies by Kim Q. Hall (Editor)
• Disability and Disadvantage by Kimberley Brownlee and Adam Cureton (Editors)
• Inclusion, Disability and Culture by Elsayed Elshabrawy Ahmad Hassanein
• Disability Harassment by Mark C. Weber
• Permission to Stare: Arts and Disability by Kate Marsh and Jonathan Burrows

More on Dutch language content and National slavery content:

• De zeven vinkjes by Joris Luyendijk
• Lorrendrayen op Africa : de illegale goederen- en slavenhandel op West-Afrika tijdens het achttiende-eeuwse handelsmonopolie van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1700-1734/ Rudolf Paesie. – Amsterdam : De Bataafsche Leeuw, 2008
• Stijden ga ik by Anton de Kom
• De Nederlandse slavenhandel 1500-1850/ P. C. Emmer. – Amsterdam [etc.] : De Arbeiderspers, 2003
• ‘s Heeren slaaf : het dramatische leven van Jacobus Capitein/ Henri van der Zee. – Amsterdam : Balans, 2000
• Nederlanders in West-Afrika 1600-1650 : Angola, Kongo en São Tomé/ Klaas Ratelband / René Baesjou (ed.). – Zutphen : Walburg Pers, 2000
• De Nederlandse Patriotten en de kolonien : een onderzoek naar hun denkbeelden en optreden, 1770-1800/ G. J. Schutte. – Groningen : Tjeenk Willink, 1974. – (Historische studies ; 29)
• De scheepvaart op West-Afrika en West-Indie in de achttiende eeuw/ J. Hudig. – [S.l. : s.n.], 1926

English content:

• Politics & Passion: A Conversation with Gloria Wekker (2009)
• ​​Leiden dissertation 1742: “slavery not against the Bible”: The story of Jacobus Capitein, a former slave advocating slavery March 17, 2021 by Jos Damen (Leiden University special collections blog)
• Slavery in Dutch South Africa/ Nigel Worden. – Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 1985. – (African studies series ; 44)
• The agony of Asar : a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747/ Jacobus Elisa Joannes Capitein / Grant Parker (ed.). – Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener, 2001
• Saga of a slave : Jacobus Capitein of Holland and Elmina/ David Nii Anum Kpobi. – [S.l. : s.n], 2001
• The Dutch triangle : the Netherlands and the Atlantic slave trade, 1621-1664/ Willie F. Page. – New York [etc.] : Garland, 1997.
• The Dutch in the Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1815/ Johannes Menne Postma. – Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 1990
• Dutch and Portuguese slave trade to Brazil : a comparative approach (1630-1650)/ Filipa Ribeiro da Silva. – Leiden : Afrika Studiecentrum, 2006
• The Dutch on the Swahili Coast, 1776-1778 : two slaving journals : part I, part II / Robert Ross (ed.) The International Journal of African Historical Studies: (1986), vol. 19, no. 2, p. 305-360 : krt. ; vol. 19, no. 3, p. 479-506.
• Mortality in the Dutch slave trade, 1675-1795/J. Postma – located in: The uncommon market; essays in the economic history of the Atlantic slave trade / ed.by H.A.Gemery and J.S.Hogendorn: (1979), p.239-260.
• The Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade/E. van den Boogaart & P. C. Emmer – located in: The uncommon market; essays in the economic history of the Atlantic slave trade / ed.by H.A.Gemery and J.S.Hogendorn: (1979), p.353-375.
• The dimension of the Dutch slave trade from Western Africa/ J. Postma. – New York : African Studies Association, 1970
• Oppression, Sexuality and Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope by Robert Ross (1979)

(powered by African Studies Center – University of Leiden, and NDT colleagues)

• Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie (MCC) [Dutch]
  The archives of the MCC (Trade Company of Middelburg) consist of 100 metres of documentary heritage on the so-called triangle trade in slaves from Middelburg, capital of the province of Zeeland  in the Netherlands, via West Africa, across the Atlantic in the 18th century. An inventory of the archives by W.S. Unger was first published in 1951. It was put online on the website of the Zeeuws Archief in 2000. The archive was inscribed  in the UNESCO International Register ‘Memory of the World’ in 2011.
• The Black Archives
  The Black Archives consists of unique book collections, archives and artifacts that are the legacy of Black Dutch writers and scientists. The more than 10.000 books in the collections focus on racism and race issues, slavery and (the) colonization, gender and feminism, social sciences and development, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, South America, Africa and more (managed by the New Urban Collective).
• NiNsee
  The National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (Nationaal Instituut Nederlands slavernijverleden en erfenis) promotes  research and the dissemination of information on the Dutch slaving past and its consequences for contemporary society. Every year, on the 1st of July, NiNsee organizes a celebration in the Oosterpark to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the Dutch colonies on 1 July 1863.
• De Slavernij [Dutch]
  Five-part documentary series on  Dutch participation in the slave trade, first broadcast on Dutch public  television in 2011 and  currently being rerun. It can also be viewed online.
• Slavernij verbeeld
  Exhibition on the history of slavery in the Dutch colonies, at the Special Collections Department of the University of Amsterdam,  from 16 June through 22 September 2013.
• Historical Museum of Den Haag
  Ongoing exhibitions at the Historical Museum of The Hague  are ongoing and address decolonizing their collections by naming and providing context of depictions of enslaved individuals and their stories.
• Historiek (slavernij)
  History is an online history magazine for a wide audience. Motto: “We want to connect history and current events in an accessible way”. There are a wealth of articles on slavery and current events, and amazing articles on various historio-politically oriented events (Dutch).
• De Zwarte Bladzijde = The Dark Chapter
  Opening in the Dutch National Maritime Museum (Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam on 27 June 2013, the Dark Chapter is an exhibition about the slave trade which  takes you step by step through the dramatic story of the slave ship ‘Leusden’.
• The Abolition Project
  This site, hosted by the East of England Broadband Network,  looks at the transatlantic slave trade and Thomas Clarkson and his fellow abolitionists who fought for the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the British colonies.
• H-Slavery
  Moderated discussion list “to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation….dedicated to the dissemination of information about the history of slavery and antislavery in all time periods and parts of the world.”
• International Slavery Museum
  The International Slavery Museum opened in Liverpool, England, in August 2007,  the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade. It focuses on aspects of historical and contemporary slavery, and on the history of the transatlantic slave trade (the trade triangle, European traders, life on board, slave ship arrival in the Americas, archaeology).
• Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 
  Online data archive including raw data and documentation compiled by Philip D. Curtin, University of Wisconsin.
• Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
  This website, maintained by Dr. Brycchan Carey, lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, U.K., offers resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, including historical, biographical, and bibliographical data. It also contains an extensive slavery chronology.