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The Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO's race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Remnants of Race Science
Part I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–1951
1. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”
2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere
3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial Resilience
Part II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–1962
4. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project
5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata Project
Part III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–1961
6. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil
7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations Inquiry
Conclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”
Notes
Index
Info autore
Sebastián Gil-Riaño is an assistant professor in the History and Sociology of Science Department and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.
