When will anti-racism arrive? Italian social scientists at the UNESCO Youth Institute (1959-1963)
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Andrea Avalli
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/127
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 126-143 File size 206 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2026-127008
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The article aims to trace the origins of scientific anti-racism in post-war Italy by looking at the history of social sciences. To do so, I reconstruct the first collaborations of Italian social psychologists and cultural anthropologists – dating back to the early 1960s – in UNESCO’s anti-racist projects, drawing in particular on archival sources relating to their activities at the UNESCO Youth Institute in West Germany. In doing so, I attempt to historicize the characteristics of the new anti-racist epistemology, tracing its disciplinary roots in US social sciences and identifying its first applications in Italy.
Keywords: anti-racism, UNESCO, social sciences
Andrea Avalli, Quando arriva l’antirazzismo? Scienziati sociali italiani all’UNESCO Youth Institute (1959-1963) in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 127/2026, pp 126-143, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2026-127008