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The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought - Brossura

Thakkar, Sonali

 
9781503637337: The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought
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ISBN 10: 1503637336 ISBN 13: 9781503637337
Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2023

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World War II 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 common sense 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, social scientific, literary, and 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.

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Sonali Thakkar is Assistant Professor of English at New York University.

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Editore
Stanford Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1503637336
ISBN 13 
9781503637337
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
271
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