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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇

https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

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@postkulturwiss I haven't listened to it (yet?) but that reminds me of a post I edited for Lauren Stokes. In her case, the state was thinking men too, men from a perspective that ignored the reality of women. https://migrantknowledge.org/2022/03/29/the-migrant-woman-as-alibi-for-state-inaction/
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