The black child: "racist" depictions in Dutch secondary school history textbooks (1968-2017)

The current article questions contemporary and historic depictions of Black people identified in Dutch secondary school history textbooks (1968-2017) and interprets to what extent these depictions shift in time. Based on multiple correspondence analysis four clusters were found and named "anti-racist", "innocuous", "Eurocentric", and "racist". The findings show that the number of "racist" depictions in text and image has increased in the last 50 years. "Eurocentric" depictions, however, have decreased. Furthermore, most images of Black people may be categorized as "racist" which is far from the ideal of racist depictions being excluded from Dutch textbooks in favor of more anti-racist depictions.