The New Normaal: “Black Pete,” Muslims and Whiteness in the Netherlands
…ting those histories that would undermine this self-conception. Writing of Canada, Klassen delineates how the Christian violence at the settler-state’s founding has been suppressed in favor of remembrances that support contemporary conceptions of Canada as always already harmoniously multicultural. She emphasizes that civic secularism always operates locally, clinging to some stories and tuning out others. A key civic ideal in the Netherlands is t…
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