Postwar UNESCO race statements legitimized racial mixture as national ideology

Evidence

The ambivalence about mestizaje/mesticagem across Latin America seemed to have receded from roughly the 1930s onwards, once the grip of eugenics and the terrors of degenerationism had weakened. Racial mixture in Brazil especially, and across Latin America more broadly, assumed firmer footing as ideological possibility and prospect from the late 1940s on, finding fuel in the UNESCO race statements of the period, predicated as the latter were on reconfiguring race as culture and race mixing as a virile response to biological racism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1167

Categorization

• XREF: The UNESCO-validated ‘race as culture’ shift parallels the colorblind/neoliberal deracialization discourse central to this book’s general argument. — connects to: Race as a concept can overarch class, gender, and region to unify a nation; Cultural purity ideologies persist against hybridity and fuel regional racial conflict; Reified culture discourse masks underlying ideologies of racial purity and hierarchy. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 909 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Race as a concept can overarch class, gender, and region to unify a nation #expands (0.75)
• Cultural purity ideologies persist against hybridity and fuel regional racial conflict #qualifies (0.72)
• Reified culture discourse masks underlying ideologies of racial purity and hierarchy. #contradicts (0.70) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 909