«Aart G. Broek has now for the first time translated Medardo de Marchena’s important pamphlet into Dutch.» – Rosemarijn Hoefte

Over ‘Medardo de Marchena: Staatsgevaarlijk in koloniaal Curaçao’ van Aart G. Broek in New West Indian Guide [nr.96], april 2022
(…) Rosemarijn Hoefte has kindly provided an overview of recent Dutch-language books that may be of interest to our readers. (…) Anton de Kom’s Surinamese perspective on the history of his country of birth was unique in Dutch colonial historiography, but his indictment of stifling Dutch colonial policy was not. Partially inspired by Marcus Garvey, Pedro Pablo Medardo de Marchena in 1929 wrote a fierce indictment in Papiamentu against racism and other humiliations suffered by people of color on account of the colonial state, the Roman Catholic Church, and big business on Curaçao, for which he was prosecuted and jailed. Aart G. Broek has now for the first time translated Medardo de Marchena’s important pamphlet into Dutch, with a lengthy introduction on its historical context as Medardo de Marchena: Staatsgevaarlijk in koloniaal Curaçao (Haarlem, the Netherlands: In de Knipscheer, 2021, paper € 17,50).
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