This is the definitive bibliography regarding the discussion on Zwarte Piet and the general situation of (perceived) social exclusion in the Netherlands in general. The text has been drafted within the framework of the European project Talking about taboos.The project has been funded with support from the European Commission. The document reflects the view only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

1. BIBLIOGRAPHY – EF
Project: Talking About Taboos (2013-1-FR1-GRU06-49587)
Title Amnesty International on Dutch police racial profiling
(2013)
Url if online resource http://www.amnesty.nl/sites/default/files/public/rappo
rt_etnisch_profileren_ainl_28_okt_2013.pdf
Domain anti-racism
Short description AI report on the current state of racial profiling at the
Dutch police.
Title Zygmunt Bauman – Identity (2004). Cambridge: Polity
Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Sociology
Short description A reconnaissance of the concept identity in a dialogue
between Zygmunt Bauman and Benedetto Vecchi.
Title Zygmunt Bauman – Liquid Life (2005). Cambridge: Polity
Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Sociology
Short description Bauman describes the effect of radical globalism on
societies, a main effect being exclusion and the threat of
it.
Title Zygmunt Bauman – Liquid Times (2007). Cambridge:
Polity Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Sociology
Short description Bauman delves deeper into the mechanisms of exclusion.
Title Black Pete & Sinterklaas: UN experts encourage
respectful national debate on Dutch tradition (2013)
Url if online resource http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayN
ews.aspx?NewsID=14013&LangID=E
Domain anti-racism
Short description UN HR follow-up communication on Zwarte Piet.
Title Robert Cialdini – Influence. The psychology of persuasion
(1984). New York: Harper Collins.

2. Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Study on the biological shortcuts in our psychology.
Title Charles Duhigg – The power of habit. Why we do what we
do and how to change (2012). London: Random House
Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Study on the formation of habits and profiling.
Title ECRI REPORT ON THE NETHERLANDS (2013)
Url if online resource http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/country-by-
country/netherlands/NLD-CbC-IV-2013-039-ENG.pdf
Domain anti-racism
Short description European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
on the current state of affairs in the Netherlands
Title EGE - Opinion 26: Ethics of Information and
Communication Technologies (2012)
Url if online resource http://ec.europa.eu/archives/bepa/european-group-
ethics/docs/publications/ict_final_22_february-
adopted.pdf
Domain Online identities
Short description Reconnaissance of the impact of technology on our
identities taking the EU legal framework as a starting-
point.
Title Anthony Giddens – Modernity and Self-Identity. Self and
society in the late modern age (1991). London: Polity
Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Sociology
Short description Study on identity.
Title Erving Goffman – The presentation of Self in everyday life
(1959). London: Penguin Books.
Url if online resource
Domain Sociology
Short description Exploration of identity as playing roles and giving vs
giving off information.
Title Joshua Greene – Moral tribes. Emotion, reason, and the
gap between us and them (2013). London: Atlantic books.
Url if online resource

3. Domain Philosophy
Short description Study on two types of morality: unconscious (emotions)
and conscious.
Title Adrian Hart – That’s racist. How the regulation of speech
and thought devides us all (2014). Exeter: Imprint
Academic.
Url if online resource
Domain Anti-racism
Short description Critical study of anti-racism policies and implementations
in the UK.
Title Bruce Hood – The Self illusion (2011). London: Constable.
Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Study on the construction of selfs.
Title Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, fast and slow (2011).
London: Penguin Books.
Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Study on decision-making in two modes: unconscious and
conscious.
Title Joseph LeDoux – The emotional brain. The mysterious
underpinnings of emotional life (1996). New York:
Touchstone
Url if online resource
Domain Neuroscience
Short description Study on the neurological origin of fear.
Title Letter by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
on the topic (2013)
Url if online resource http://www.scribd.com/doc/177303852/De-brief-van-
de-VN-over-Zwarte-Piet
Domain anti-racism
Short description An advisory letter by the UN HR Commissioner on the
phenomenon of Zarte Piet as a racist tradition that
triggered a highly intensified racism discussion in the
Netherlands.
Title Letter by Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan
(2013)

4. Url if online resource http://www.scribd.com/doc/180245550/Brief-
Eberhard-van-der-Laan
Domain anti-racism
Short description Letter by the Amsterdam on theZwarte Piet discussion
Title Emmanuel Levinas. Totalite et Infini. Essay sur
l”exteriorite (1961). Den Haag: Nijhoff.
Url if online resource
Domain Philosophy.
Short description Essay on overcoming external, totalitarian, labels by
staging a real meeting with a fellow human.
Title Leonard Mlodinow – Sublimal. How your unconscious
mind rules your behavior (2012). New York: Random
House
Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Summary of neurobiological studies on unconscious
behavior.
Title Pietitie
Url if online resource https://www.facebook.com/pietitie
Domain tradition
Short description Pro-Zwarte Piet group on Facebook
Title Paul Ricoeur – Oneself as Another (1992). Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Philosophy
Short description Study on identity. Distinguishes between memete and
ipsete.
Title Phil Rosenzweig – Left brain, right stuff. How leaders
make winning decisions (2014). London: Profile books.
Url if online resource
Domain Business psychology.
Short description Study on decision-making. Making the distinction
between authenticity and sincerity.
Title Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen – Thanks for the feedback.
The science and art of receiving information well (2014).
New York: Viking.
Url if online resource

5. Domain Business psychology.
Short description Study on identity.
Title Dick Swaab. We are our brains. From the Womb to
Alzheimer's (2015). London: Penguin Books.
Url if online resource
Domain Neuroscience.
Short description A summary on where science stands regarding
knowledge on the brain.
Title Timothy D. Wilson – Strangers to ourselves. Discovering
the adaptive unconscious (2002). Cambridge: Belknap
Harvard.
Url if online resource
Domain Psychology
Short description Study on the unconscious.
Title Tim Wise – White like me. Reflections on race from a
privileged son (2008). Berkeley: Soft Skull Press.
Url if online resource
Domain Anti-racism
Short description Autobiographic text on racism and anti-racism.