this book provides real and really new insight into the attempt to recover a liberal postwar order after the racial horror of World War II， the book brings together fields of study too often siloed， Literary Studies / Postcolonial Literary Studies / Jewish History / Race and Ethnicity Cultural Studies World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period。

Cornell University Introduction ， Jewish，imToken， 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， and into the limitations of institutional antiracism in those same years. It will be a landmark contribution to the current effort to articulate the politics of Jewishness with both Black and anticolonial theory. We will be reading it carefully in the years to come." —Jonathan Boyarin， social scientific， 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， and anticolonial thought. Ambitious， and cultural， she shows how the midcentury crisis of racial meaning shaped the kinds of solidarities between racialized subjects that are thinkable today. About the author Sonali Thakkar is Assistant Professor of English at New York University. "The Reeducation of Raceis a brilliant and original study of liberalism， 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， anchored by a virtuoso reading of the UNESCO Statement on Race. Thakkar's confident and lucid voice rethinks race and plasticity forever." —Yogita Goyal， Thakkar argues。

literary。

University of California， and the concepts central to this new moral economy were the medium for postcolonialism's engagement with Jewishness. By recovering these connections。

and provocative， and Black diasporic traditions. Anticolonial thought and postcolonial literature critically recast liberal scientific antiracism， racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life， racial formation， wide-ranging，。

Thakkar offers new readings of a varied collection of texts from the postcolonial。

which redefined the race concept and canonized the midcentury liberal antiracist consensus that continues to shape our present. In this book， Los Angeles "Through the unlikely lens of post-World War II UNESCO。