The reeducation of race : Jewishness and the politics of antiracism in postcolonial thought / Sonali Thakkar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thakkar, Sonali, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unesco--Influence.

Unesco.

Race in literature.

Jews in literature.

Literature and race--History--20th century.

Literature and race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Series Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Reeducation of Race

1. Rupture and Renewal

2. The Racial Residuum

3. Culture and Conversion

4. Reeducation as Repair

Coda: The Waning Consensus

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series List.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Thakkar, Sonali The Reeducation of Race

ISBN:

9781503637344

1503637344

OCLC:

1414455589