UNESCO issued The Race Question, challenging claims that biological differences justified racial superiority. The intervention contested the authority of knowledge used to rationalize unequal treatment. In the DTM framework, rejecting biological hierarchy is one part of the struggle: political, economic and cultural institutions can reproduce inequality even when biological racism is publicly discredited.
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What did UNESCO’s 1950 race statement challenge?
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The statement challenged racial myths presented as scientific knowledge. Institutional inequality could continue after those myths were rejected.
Discrediting biological racism automatically dismantles unequal economic and political institutions.
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Institutions can reproduce hierarchy after biological claims lose authority. This distinction is central to the applied DTM framework.