Gloria Daisy Wekker (born June 13, 1950) is an Afro-Surinamese Dutch emeritus professor (Utrecht University) and writer who has focused on gender studies and sexuality in the Afro-Caribbean region and diaspora.

[9] She has led debate which questioned the racist nature of such iconic images in Dutch tradition as Sinterklaas (Santa Claus)'s helpers as blackface golliwogs known as Zwarte Piet (Black Pete),[8][10] as well as the imagery of what constitutes beauty.

[4] In 2006, her book The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora won critical praise[12] and was awarded with the 2007 Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association.

[14][15] In 2011, she began a sabbatical to work at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies on a research project,[4] which resulted in the publication in 2016 of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race.

[2] In this book, Wekker utilizes a scavenger methodology by "work[ing] with interviews, watching TV and reading novels, analyzing email correspondence..." in order to develop a clear understanding of the Dutch cultural archive.