Gloria Wekker
Title
Gloria Wekker
Birth Date
1950
Birthplace
Paramaribo, Suriname
Primary Sources
Wekker, G. (2022). “How Does One Survive the University as a Space Invader?”: Beyond White Innocence in the Academy. Dutch Crossing, 46(3), 201–213. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2022.2145048
Wekker, G. (2020). Decolonizing Knowledge of Black Queer Gender. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7(1), 140–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7914626
van den Brandt, N., Schrijvers, L., Miri, A., & Mustafa, N. (2018). White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker. DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 5(1), 67–82. https://doi.org/10.11116/digest.5.1.4
Wekker, G. (2016). White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Duke University Press https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374565
Wekker, G. (2006). The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Suriamese Diaspora. Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-passion/9780231131629/
Wekker, G. (2020). Decolonizing Knowledge of Black Queer Gender. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7(1), 140–147. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7914626
van den Brandt, N., Schrijvers, L., Miri, A., & Mustafa, N. (2018). White Innocence: Reflections on Public Debates and Political-Analytical Challenges. An Interview with Gloria Wekker. DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 5(1), 67–82. https://doi.org/10.11116/digest.5.1.4
Wekker, G. (2016). White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. Duke University Press https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374565
Wekker, G. (2006). The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Suriamese Diaspora. Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-politics-of-passion/9780231131629/
Secondary Sources
Vandenberghe, F. (2024). Behn’s White Innocence: Language Politics in the Dutch-Surinamese Translations of Oroonoko (1688). Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 36(2), 251–267. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.36.2.251
Andeweg, A. (2022). Layering the Cultural Archive: A Critical Reading of Gloria Wekker’s White Innocence and Rembrandt’s Painting of Two Black Men. Dutch Crossing, 46(3), 230–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2022.2145047
Palacios, M., & Sheehi, S. (2020). Vaporizing white innocence: confronting the affective-aesthetic matrix of desiring witnessing. Subjectivity, 13(4), 281–297. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00106-9
Hu, T. (2018). White innocence: paradoxes of colonialism and race, by Gloria Wekker. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(4), 667–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2018.1498296
Andeweg, A. (2022). Layering the Cultural Archive: A Critical Reading of Gloria Wekker’s White Innocence and Rembrandt’s Painting of Two Black Men. Dutch Crossing, 46(3), 230–243. https://doi.org/10.1080/03096564.2022.2145047
Palacios, M., & Sheehi, S. (2020). Vaporizing white innocence: confronting the affective-aesthetic matrix of desiring witnessing. Subjectivity, 13(4), 281–297. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-020-00106-9
Hu, T. (2018). White innocence: paradoxes of colonialism and race, by Gloria Wekker. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 20(4), 667–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2018.1498296
Extra Resources
Icaza Garza, R. (2017). ‘I am still hopeful’. An interview with Gloria Wekker on diversity, anti-racism, and decolonising the academy. Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies, 20(3), 249-258. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2017.3.ICAZ
Lootens, E., & Corry, S. (2022, March 10). ‘Decolonisation is a constant struggle’: An Interview with Gloria Wekker. Wasafari. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://www.wasafiri.org/content/an-interview-with-gloria-wekker/
Lootens, E., & Corry, S. (2022, March 10). ‘Decolonisation is a constant struggle’: An Interview with Gloria Wekker. Wasafari. Accessed March 20, 2025. https://www.wasafiri.org/content/an-interview-with-gloria-wekker/
Collection
Citation
“Gloria Wekker,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/771.