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Author: Silvana Patriarca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1108845908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the untold stories of biracial children born to Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the aftermath of World War Two.
Author: Eden K. McLean
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-07
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1496207203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMussolini's Children uses the lens of state-mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism in Fascist Italy. Between 1922 and 1940, educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy's children between the ages of five and eleven undertook a mission to rejuvenate the Italian race and create a second Roman Empire. This project depended on the twin beliefs that the Italian population did indeed constitute a distinct race and that certain aspects of its moral and physical makeup could be influenced during childhood. Eden K. McLean assembles evidence from state policies, elementary textbooks, pedagogical journals, and other educational materials to illustrate the contours of a Fascist racial ideology as it evolved over eighteen years. Her work explains how the most infamous period of Fascist racism, which began in the summer of 1938 with the publication of the "Manifesto of Race," played a critical part in a more general and long-term Fascist racial program.
Author: Rhiannon Noel Welch
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 178138455X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVital Subjects examines cultural production—literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film—from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rather than a marginal afterthought or a Fascist aberration.
Author: Silvana Patriarca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107676787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do Italians believe that they have a national character and that this character is a major reason for their political woes? Why is their self-image so frequently derogatory? In this meticulous study of the role of national character in Italian political and social discourse, Silvana Patriarca reconstructs the genealogy of a pervasive idea in the culture of modern Italy. Using sources ranging from political pamphlets to newspapers and films, this book shows how self-representations of national character and its vices were shaped by foreign perceptions and stereotypes, internal political struggles, and changing intellectual paradigms. Investigating the politics of these representations, their ideological content, and their uses, the author recasts the study of Italian patriotism and nationalism as discourses and sheds light on Italian political culture and on the rhetoric of nationalism more generally.
Author: Michael A. Livingston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 110702756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history and nature of the Italian Race Laws during the period (1938-43) when Italy was independent of German control.
Author: Aaron Gillette
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1134527063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRacial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide acceptance in Italy. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists concerned with the development of fascism and scholars of race and racism.
Author: Francesco Cassata
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9639776831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. The Author discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.
Author: Silvana Patriarca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1108997953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 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.
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107169771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.
Author: Dario Gaggio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1107127777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the seemingly immutable Tuscan landscape was largely shaped by modern conflicts over economic resources and cultural meanings.
