In 1914, Mohand Tazerout (1893-1973) fled the racial discrimination of colonial Algeria, after a brief experience as a “native assistant teacher” in a “native school”. In France, he became a recognized Germanizer. After the publication in the early 1930s of his translation of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West, he conducted multidisciplinary research, the conclusions of which he published in notable works: The State of Tomorrow (1936), The Social Educators of modern Germany (1942-1946), At the Congress of Civilized People (1953-1956). His knowledge of German Orientalism allowed him to translate Karl Brockelman's History of Islamic Peoples and States (1949). The Algerian war led him to commit to decolonization. In 1960, he signed with a pseudonym L'Algérie de Tomorrow, prescribing democratic institutions for an independent, pluralist Algeria.

In Political History of North Africa (1961), he proposed a decolonization of history, dear to his friend Mohamed-Cherif Sahli. In 1963, he concluded the reflection on racism which had been the subject of a theoretical Genetic essay on races, peoples, nations, democracy (1959), where he denied any scientific basis for the idea of race .

The Manifesto Against Racism links racism to colonialism and proposes to complete decolonization through an anti-racist fight. This latest edited book by Tazerout is the densest, because it is also an assessment of all of his work, the conclusions of which serve to elucidate racism which, as a result of colonialism, constitutes one of the obstacles to appeasement. relations between peoples opposed by religious wars, class struggles and conflicts. We know that the work of this graduate of the Bouzareah Normal Course for natives ended with a still unpublished translation of the Koran.

His study of great civilizations allowed him to move from local problems to universal history. By translating the founding Book of Islam, he intended to make known the “Adamic brotherhood”, prescribed by this anti-racist text. Muslim humanism seemed to him to be a possible contribution of the Muslim world to ridding humanity of the colonial racism that it had fled to “self-deindigenize”.