Japanese Goosebook! Look! My book ”The Goose snatches the bread from the ducks, my childhood in a Japanese internment camp on the isle of Java” has finally been published in Japan, as a children’s book by publisher Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo! In this book […]

Discussions about racism still focus on who can and who cannot be called racist, while the question what of racism actually is is fobbed off with vague descriptions in the direction of ‘believing population groups to be inferior’. Looking down on people is of […]

The designations high- and low-educated have to be abolished ! The designations high- and low-educated have to be abolished. What names should be used instead is still unclear. One of the possibilities could be: theoretically and practically educated. But I think it is more […]

Taking stock: similarities and differences between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism On the 29th of May 2015 this article was published in Dutch on the weblog “Republiek Allochtonië”.
On the 2nd of July 2015 it was published in English by Juan Cole on his weblog ”Informed Comment” […]