Understanding and Combating Today’s Racisms by Studying History. The Responsibility of Intercultural Education

The paper argues that intercultural education must assume a specific and explicit responsibility into an anti-racist direction, as a necessary response to the serious problems that the different forms of racism and discrimination cause in social living and in the open and positive development of individual and group identities. Above all we try to focus on the importance of the study of racisms in history to understand today’s racist phenomena as a basis for the anti-racist intercultural commitment.