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Dienke Hondius

Dienke Hondius is a historian and sociologist working at the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and the Anne Frank House (Amsterdam). Her doctoral research was on ethnic and religious intermarriage in the Netherlands; she is now writing a book about race and racism in Dutch society, from 1600 to the present.

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'Become like us': the Dutch and racism

Dutch society’s impressive commitment to anti-racist norms, influenced by revulsion against Nazi and apartheid regimes, is now pressured by an opposite trend: irritation with signs of cultural difference. How does the change impact on lives and identities in the modern Netherlands?