Black Petes & Black Crooks? Racial stereotyping and offending in the Netherlands
| Autor: | Katharina Joosen, CalvinJohn Smiley, Rebecca M. Hayes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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White (horse)
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Ethnic group Racial profiling Prison Context (language use) Gender studies 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Argument 050501 criminology Crime statistics Sociology Law 0505 law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Contemporary Justice Review. 21:16-32 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2248 1028-2580 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10282580.2018.1415049 |
| Popis: | In the popular Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas, the caricature of his helper ‘Zwarte Piet’ [Black Pete] is often of a black-faced white person. The representation of this character has been surrounded by controversy in Europe and abroad. The following paper discusses these recent controversial media stories in the Netherlands and Western Europe along with the historical context of this character. We also make an argument about how the pervasive imagery in news, television, and theatre of people of color in the Netherlands may be influencing crime statistics by creating and encouraging negative views of ‘the other’. In the Netherlands, Dutch Caribbean and Surinamese first-generation immigrants compared to white, native Dutch are over-represented in official arrest and prison statistics. We theorize that the reasons for this noticeable overrepresentation in crime statistic is it at least in part due to a societal stigma of ‘the other’ and racial profiling of black ethnic minorities. |
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