The history of class, race and gender relations is largely under researched for the island territories of Curaçao, Bonaire, St Eustatius, Saba and St Maarten, the group of islands which comprise the Netherlands-Antilles. While there are archival sources which can depict some of this history, much of it remains submerged in our memories due to our self-imposed silences on these social issues. In this paper I extract some of this memory together with fragments of research already carried out, statistical (...) evidence available, and some of the struggles which the feminist movement has waged in regard to oppressive legislation which discriminated against women, to provide a glimpse of this postcolonial variation which also constitutes part of the Caribbean. (shrink)

Esta es una reseña de dos volúmenes sobre la herencia antillana: Antilliaans erfgoed, volumen 1: Toen en un y volumen 2: Nu en verder, editados por Gert Oostindie & Alex van Stipriaan, en Leiden, Países Bajos, por Leiden University Press, en 2021. El primero consta de 288 páginas y el segundo de 282 páginas, cuentan con el ISBN 978 90 8728 355 1+2.