Hazard, Anthony Quinzales, Jr (Author)
Temple University
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Language: English
This dissertation explores the discourse and practice of anti-racism in the first two decades following World War Two. The United Nations and its specialized agency, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (Unesco), led the international articulation and practice of anti-racism in the postwar period. As the nation-state that rose to unmatched political and economic power immediately following World War Two, the United States commanded a huge role in the formation of the UN, Unesco, and the articulation of anti-racism in the postwar period. This project argues that the United States' promotion of anti-racism through Unesco reinscribed biological theories of "racial" difference through culture and the broader ideology of modernization. The larger implications of this dissertation concern the idea of "racial" difference following World War II. The specific ways that postwar politics and scientific discourses of "race" informed each other are uncovered and shown to be constitutive elements of US political economic power, and struggles against it. Ultimately, this dissertation contributes to broader discussions about the presence of "racial" and cultural difference within multiculturalism and other political paradigms that arguably recycle the very notions they attempt to undermine.
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