Quando arriva l'antirazzismo? Scienziati sociali italiani all'UNESCO Youth Institute (1959-1963)

The article aims to trace the origins of scientific anti-racism in post-war Italy bylooking at the history of social sciences. To do so, I reconstruct the first collaborationsof Italian social psychologists and cultural anthropologists - dating back to theearly 1960s - in UNESCO's anti-racist projects, drawing in particular on archivalsources 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 firstapplications in Italy. [Publisher's text]