News Media and Academic Articles

News Media Articles:

HOLLAND'S POLITICALLY INCORRECT CHRISTMAS: Santa's Little (Slave) Helper (05 December 2008 Spiegel Online) http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,594674,00.html

Play points finger at Dutch holiday tradition (27 November 2008 NRC) http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2075517.ece/Play_points_finger_at_Dutch_holiday_tradition

Museum drops Piet march after threats http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/08/museum_drops_piet_march_after.php

Americans ban Sinterklaas http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/10/americans_ban_sinterklaas_says.php

Sinterklaas tops Dutch tradition list http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/11/post_1.php

Sinterklaas Tradition Pressured By Multicultural Society http://www.nisnews.nl/public/281106_1.htm

Scorn, praise after Dutch Santa's black sidekicks turn multicolored http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/01/europe/EU_GEN_Netherlands_Politically_Correct_Santa.php?page=2

Sinterklaas is coming to town - and some Dutch are upset http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1222/p25s01-woeu.html

Culture Clash: Sinterklaas Vs. Santa Claus -- In Netherlands, Neither Is Pure As Driven Snow http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971212&slug=2577669

Dutch Santa Squabble http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/03/world/main72975.shtml

Academic Articles:
Who is black Peter? Ferrist State University: Museum of Racist Memorabilia http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/jan05/

Black Skin, White Masks Revisited Contemporary Post-Colonial Dilemmas in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium http://www.okcir.com/Articles%20V%20Special/EricMielants.pdf

The Long-term Historical Development of Racist Tendencies within the Political and Social Context of Belgium. International Journal of Comparative Sociology.2006; 47: 313-334 http://cos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/47/3-4/313

Black Pete: Analyzing a Racialized Dutch Tradition Through the History of Western Creations of Stereotypes of Black Peoples http://www.humanityinaction.org/docs/Brown__Tavares.pdf

Zwarte Piet in a wider context of Dutch racism and its colonial history http://www.ithaca.edu/icjournal/04_jolly.pdf