UNESCO Statement on Race rejects the pseudoscience debunked

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• The Race Concept: Results of an Inquiry whole source

  not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth

  Primary UNESDOC source for the 1950 wording and the 1951 clarification process.

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• Fallacies of racism exposed: UNESCO publishes Declaration by world's scientists whole source

  UNESCO Courier shows the statement being publicly presented in July-August 1950 as a scientific answer to racism after genocide.

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• Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice whole source

  The 1978 UNESCO declaration shows the later institutional form of the same antiracist principle.

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• UNESCO Courier 70: an inspiring read whole source

  Supports the rejection of biological race hierarchy and the social-myth framing.

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Appears in 3 stories

• Eugenics and scientific racism step 34
• Genetics and colonialism: ancestry, race-making, and the myth of pure tribes step 25
• Nazi ideology was not unique: race myth, empire, and extermination step 72

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