Postwar Anti-Racism

This book examines the United States government’s international campaign against classical racism as it faced growing criticism over its own race-relation problems. Specifically, Anthony Q. Hazard Jr. looks at the connections between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the US government, arguing that UNESCO served as ‘a primary site of the international articulation and practice of anti-racism in the postwar period’ (p. 2). By showing that anti-racism proved a popular platform to help enforce American hegemony in an era marked by Jim Crow laws, he successfully maps the significant roles of state and non-state actors. The book not only explores how anti-racism helped the US maintain influence without claims of biological superiority, but also discusses how the scientific community challenged ‘biological’ notions of race, as well as the history of the United Nations and UNESCO as ‘international anti-racist bureaucracies’ (p. 7). Hazard’s work is a significant study that sheds light on the contradictory anti-racist histories of the US, UN and UNESCO with a wealth of archival material

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