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Hello, I followed Paul’s suggestion to see what can I find more specific to our HNA related fields. I was intrigued by the following title: Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society by Alison Blakely. A short synopsis said this: “[It]examines folklore, art, literature, and religion to gain an understanding of the history and development of racial attitudes and color prejudice during Western expansion and scientific and industrial modernization. Blakely discovers that humanism and liberalism, the hallmarks of Dutch society since medieval times, have not dispelled race bias.” I decided to explore it and ordered the library binding from Amazon, published by Indiana University Press, 1994. It received a five star review. Some of you maybe long familiar with this book but I was not. I thought I share this information anyway.