Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker is an Afro-Dutch cultural anthropologist with specialisations in gender studies, sexuality, African American studies, and Caribbean studies. She was a professor in the department of gender studies at Utrecht University, and since 2012 she is emerita. In 2019–20, she occupies the King Willem Alexander Chair for Low Land Studies at the University of Liège, Belgium.
All essays by Gloria Wekker
How Families Navigate Empire
This book puts Carby’s brilliant scholarship on display. Imperial Intimacies is highly readable, a memoir of her youth in the UK, as the daughter of a mixed-race couple – a Welsh mother and a Jamaican father – who married after World War II. The book not only contains meticulous archival research on the imperial relationship between the UK and its crown colony Jamaica. It is also a race-cognizant history of life in post–World War II Britain, reflecting on the historical spectrum of ideas about race and so much more.