Brattain on Race, Racism, and UNESCO

Michelle Brattain has an excellent article in the newest issue (December 2007) of the American Historical Review. She shows how the post-WWII conversation about race at the UN struggled to fully appropriate an emergent scientific consensus that rejected biological definitions of race. Her work historicizes the idea of race itself, showing a particularly pregnant moment in which the biological and the constructivist notions of race were debated and fought over. -DS