Race, Racism, and Antiracism: UNESCO and the Politics of Presenting Science to the Postwar Public.
The article focuses on the measures taken by UNESCO to prevent the sort of race-based prejudice that lead to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe by creating a program that would discourage racism existing under the guise of science. The plan for such a program did not come to fruition because of internat...
| Published in: | American Historical Review Vol. 112; no. 5; pp. 1386 - 1414 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2007
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