...Sonali Thakkar; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author...

... Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO). 1963 . The development of higher education in Africa . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ____. 1999 . Statistical Yearbook 1999 . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. World Bank. 1991 . The African capacity building initiative: Toward improved...

... of plasticity as a means to overturn racism. UNESCO’s mid-twentieth-century statements on race, Thakkar notes, equate racism with determinist frameworks in which organic capacity is fixed and posit plasticity as an alternative model for a postracial world. Yet plasticity, rather than resisting the rigidity...

... of colonization could be mitigated. UNESCO has taken up this problem, and recently (in the UNESCO Courier of April 1956) Dr. Luther Evans, the director general, declared that “under certain conditions technological change may be introduced in a manner to fit the prevailing culture.”10...

... Organization (UNESCO) and the Gha- 60 Pierre • Beyond Heritage Tourism naian state’s fervent promotion of “heritage” or “roots” tourism, African diasporic visits to Ghana have received ongoing journalistic coverage and increasing scholarly engagement. Significantly, this clamor...

... gibanju , 213 – 42 . Lesage Dieter . “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Worker .” Maska—Preforming Arts Journal 20 , nos. 94–95 ( 2005 ): 93 – 94 . Majstorović Stevan . Cultural Policy in Yugoslavia: Self-Management and Culture . Paris : UNESCO , 1980...

..., and transnational agencies (from the local tourist board to UNESCO). In Rio itself, Afro Reggae is linked to IBASE, the bank Caixa Econômica Federal, the citizen action initiative Viva Rio, CEAP (Centro de Articulação das Populações Marginalizadas), and many other NGOs, corporations, and grassroots groups...

... crumbled.”8 Forts In 1987 the Bahla fort was “inscribed” as a UNESCO world heritage site, the first such site in the Arabian Peninsula. In line with an already existing policy of maintaining national heritage and culture through...

..., subjectivity. By modernization Putin means a self-­reliant person not unlike the forms of subjectivity circulating in organizations like ReGeneration. According to 56 Matza · The Will to What? a document prepared by the Russian Federation for UNESCO...

... contexts. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is no longer a monocultural infrastructure for territorializing the Christian divine. If you look at the cathedral with a scrap metal dealer, he or she will at some point talk about the lead on the roof, how valuable it is. The roof of Durham Cathedral...

..., Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance,” in Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism, ed. UNESCO (Paris: UNESCO, 1980) for his methodological remarks about the study of the relation between capitalism and racism. 16. Jeffrey Weeks, Sex...

... deeply nondialogical and tainted by anti-Semitic and colonialist racism. Indeed, it was in the context of decolonization that UNESCO asked Lévi-Strauss to do the research unilateral that culminated in his “Race and History” (1952), where the French anthro...

...- Colonialism and Imperialism (Toronto: Afro-Carib Publications, 1975); and Joseph Harris and Slimane Zeghidour, “Africa and Its Diaspora since 1935,” in General History of Africa, vol. 3: Africa since 1935, ed. Ali A. Mazrui (Berkeley, Calif.: UNESCO/Heinemann, 1993...

.... 31. See Stuart Hall, “Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Domi- nance,” in Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism, ed. UNESCO (Paris: UNESCO, 1980), 305–45. 32. See “Draft Theses on the National and Colonial Question” (1920...

..., and sanitation problems had reached crisis proportions. A partner- ship composed of UNESCO’s Managing Social Transformations Program, ENDA Tiers Monde, and several grassroots organizations — the Associa- tion des Jeunes de Yeumbeul pour la Promotion Sociale, the Association des Jeunes pour l’Education et...

..., an elite public institution, boasts the only UNESCO World Heritage Site on a US university, a $9.5 billion endowment, and over $1 billion in property holdings in the city of Charlottesville (on which it pays no taxes—and for the record, most of the university owns the bulk of its real estate in Albemarle...

.... 17. Core accounts in this section are reconstructed from Kane’s handwritten notes from interviews carried out in a mix of English and Spanish. 18. Chile is a member of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission Tsunami Programme, which...

..., with accreditation to Spain and Portugal, and as Sri Lanka’s permanent delegate to UNESCO. 44. Dayan Jayatilleka, “The Politics of Diaspora Dissidence,” Groundviews, Social Text 117 • Winter 2013 2 3 10 October 2009...

..., major international conferences, featuring globalized bod- ies such as UNESCO and international nongovernmental organizations, were important sources of influence upon local and central governments as they developed concrete initiatives. A Korean...

... contestation quite literally—as a performer. While still resident in the United States, she was invited to the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar in April 1966. Staged by UNESCO, France, and Senegal, with significant support from the US State Department, the festival provided a unique platform...