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Such an analytical approach illuminates the role of racial socialism\u2014socialist ideologies of \u201crace\u201d and local racial projects\u2014and its interactions with global racial hierarchies, showing how these ideologies were shaped by particular value constellations.\n\nBy discussing a 1961 humanitarian initiative of the Yugoslav Red Cross that brought sixty children and young people from the Congo to Tivat, Montenegro, this talk sheds light on the workings of socialist whiteness. This was not a colourist project but rather a normative regime of political value with two key characteristics: it ascribed superiority to Yugoslavs on the basis of their greater socialist experience, and it overlooked present problems in favour of a future in which \u201crace\u201d would no longer matter.\n\n\u010carna Brkovi\u0107 is professor of cultural studies and European ethnology at the University of Mainz. 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