Ep. 19: The History of the Dutch Caribbean Islands

We have many differences in the Caribbean, namely language, but also many similarities. In this week's episode, Dr. Margo Groenewoud shares with us the creative, political, and social histories of the Dutch Caribbean and why she believes islands like Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao are sometimes neglected in discussions about the Caribbean region.

Dr. Margo Groenewoud is a Caribbean lecturer and researcher working at the intersection of humanities and social sciences. She obtained a PhD degree at the University of Leiden (humanities) and the University of Curaçao (social sciences). As social historian she specializes in the twentieth century Dutch Caribbean, with as particular interests postcolonialism, social justice, cultural and intellectual history and digital humanities. She is senior lecturer at the University of Curaçao and board member of the University of Curaçao Research Institute (UCRI). Current research projects include Traveling Caribbean Heritage (NWO, 2018-2021) and the Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities Institute (NEH, 2019-2020). Dr. Groenewoud teaches social justice and community development at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences and is involved in ZonMw funded Participatory Action Research in Public and Mental Health, studying policies and practices relative to equity and inclusion in small island developing societies.

Strictly Facts Reads

·      “Curacao and Guzman Blanco: A Case Study of Small Power Politics in the Caribbean” by Cornelis Ch. Goslinga

·      “Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies” by Margo Groenewoud

·      “Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World” by Wim Klooster

·      “Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean: Ways of Being Non/Sovereign” by Yvon van der Pijl, Francio Guadeloupe

·      “Slavery in the Dutch Caribbean: The Books No One Has Read” by Alex Van Stipriaan

·      The Dutch in the Caribbean and on the Wild Coast 1580-1680 by Cornelis Ch. Goslinga

Strictly Facts Sounds

·      Carel de Haseth – “Slave and Master”

·      Frank Martinus Arion – “Double Play”

·      Double Play (film)