ISBN:
9781503637337
,
9781503636446
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 271 Seiten
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.892/400904
Keywords:
UNESCO
;
Geschichte
;
Einfluss
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Antirassismus
;
Antikolonialismus
;
Unesco / Influence
;
Anti-racism / History / 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Influence
;
Jews in literature
;
Literature and race / History / 20th century
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Race in literature
;
Antiracisme / Histoire / 20e siècle
;
Juifs dans la littérature
;
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature
;
Race dans la littérature
;
Unesco
;
Anti-racism
;
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
;
Jews in literature
;
Literature and race
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Race in literature
;
1900-1999
;
History
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Einfluss
;
UNESCO
;
Antirassismus
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Antikolonialismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"World War Two produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual commonsense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and UNESCO initiated a project of racial reeducation. This global antiracist campaign was framed by the persecution of Europe's Jews and anchored by UNESCO's epochal 1950 Statement on Race, which redefined the race concept and canonized the midcentury liberal antiracist consensus that continues to shape our present. In this book, Sonali Thakkar tells the story of how UNESCO's race project directly influenced anticolonial thought, and made Jewish difference and the Holocaust enduring preoccupations for anticolonial and postcolonial writers. Drawing on UNESCO's rich archival resources and shifting between the scientific, the social scientific, the literary, and the cultural, Thakkar offers new readings of a varied collection of texts from the postcolonial, Jewish, and black diasporic traditions. Anticolonial thought and postcolonial literature critically recast liberal scientific antiracism, Thakkar argues, and the concepts central to this new moral economy were the medium for postcolonialism's engagement with Jewishness. By recovering these connections, she shows how the midcentury crisis of racial meaning shaped the kinds of solidarities between racialized subjects that are thinkable today"--
