If ending racism were as simple as banning the one word, racism would be a thing of the past in Europe where, following the Holocaust, „race“ was rightly declared a scientifically bogus term and officially dismissed as adding nothing to the understanding of human difference. However, racism did not simply melt away, as the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose participation in the Unesco anti-racist project which led the charge against race from the early 1950s, admitted later.