Silvana Patriarca (New York Fordham University)

Race in Post-Fascist Italy

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate aftermath of WWII, this original and engaging study sheds lights on the persistence of anti-Black prejudice and ideas of race in democratic Italy, stressing the legacies of colonialist and fascist racism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781108845908
• ISBN-10: 1108845908
• Artikelnr.: 62543624

Autorenporträt

Silvana Patriarca is a Professor of History at Fordham University in New York City. She specializes in the history of modern Italy and, in particular, in the cultural history of nationalism and the construction of national identities. She is the author of the award-winning Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy and of Italian Vices: Nation and Character from the Risorgimento to the Republic, both published by Cambridge University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Undesirables': Foreigners and women in the postwar
2. Little 'Aliens'? Representing the 'Mulattini'
3. 'Not only a question of humanity': Assisting the 'Mulattini'
4. Growing up black in postwar Italy
5. On the American side of the Atlantic
6. Under 'Expert' eyes
7. Black Italians on screen: Two films of the 1960s
Interlude: A story from a Calabrian village
8. Ancestries and identities
Epilogue.