December 2006

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3 December 2006
Some Zwarte Piet images in the window of a record shop in Den Haag
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3 December 2006
Seasonal records on display in the window of a record shop in Den Haag. The second from the bottom has a picture of Zwarte Piet.
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3 December 2006
A record sleeve in the window of a record shop in Den Haag. There are two Zwarte Piets on the sleeve.
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3 December 2006
A picture of Zwarte Piet and Sinterklaas on top of a radio in the window of a record shop in Den Haag
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3 December 2006
Chocolate Zwarte Piets in a window of a food-related shop in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
Chocolate Zwarte Piets in a window of a food-related shop in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
Zwarte Pit hats symbolize the season in this window display in a clothing shop in Den Haag
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3 December 2006
A Zwarte Piet golliwog is attached to a present in a window display in a fancy wedding-cake-type bakery in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
A Zwarte Piet golliwog is attached to a present in a window display in a fancy wedding-cake-type bakery in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
A fancy wedding-cake-type bakery had a Zwarte Piet cake in the window in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
A fancy wedding-cake-type bakery had Zwarte Piet golliwogs in the window in Den Haag.
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3 December 2006
Seasonal decorations, including Zwarte Piet top these cupcakes in Den Haag. Sinterklaas is, of course, at the top of the pyramid. In the window display of a fancy wedding-cake-type bakery in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet and Sinterklaas in the window of a shop selling Hallmark cards in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet and a comic book display in the window of a shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet and a comic book display in the window of a shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet on the door of a comics book / card/ tobacco shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Small Zwarte Piets in the window of a stamp and coin collecting shop in the Passage in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Small Zwarte Piets in the window of a stamp and coin collecting shop in the Passage in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Small Zwarte Piets in the window of a stamp and coin collecting shop in the Passage in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
A Zwarte Piet golliwog in the window of a children's shoe shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
One Zwarte Piet leads Sinterklaas on this horse while others cavort. All in silhouette in the window of the Body Shop in the Passage in Den Haag.
This is a major international brand. By using silhouettes it gets to reference the Zwarte Piet character without using racialized imagery.
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4 December 2006
Cavorting Zwarte Piets in silhouette in the window of the Body Shop in the Passage in Den Haag.
This is a major international brand. By using silhouettes it gets to reference the Zwarte Piet character without using racialized imagery.
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4 December 2006
A blackfaced image on a sign for a shoe store urges me to buy my small Sinterklaas day gifts there.
Which I did and feel weird about.
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4 December 2006
Blackfaced posters adorn a shoe shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Blackfaced posters adorn a shoe shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet appeared in the window of a shop called Ici Paris around the 1st of December. In Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
A store called Ici Paris in Den Haag sells femmey things. They had posters up of a black woman in a Zwarte Piet hat.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet and speculaas in the display case inside a cell phone shop in Den Haag.
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4 December 2006
Zwarte Piet in the display case inside a cell phone shop in Den Haag.
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5 December 2006
Nick offers ideas about possible translations of the blackboard graffiti while Giuseppe looks on.

 

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