Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Bianco e nero: Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani

Abstract

studiosi di Pasolini potrebbe sentirsi un po' spiazzati (il lavoro esula infatti dal mainstream concernente la riflessione pasoliniana), ma vi troveranno numerosi e acuti spunti di riflessioni; gli studiosi di Boine avranno la possibilita`di tornare su alcuni dei nodi centrali di questo autore. Gli ultimi tre saggi, infine, chiarificano con sicurezza determinati aspetti del lavoro concernente la scrittura sperimentale.

A discussion on Il colore della Repubblica. ‘Figli della guerra’ e razzismo nell'Italia postfascista, by Silvana Patriarca, Turin, Einaudi, 2021. With Valeria Deplano, Guri Schwarz and Silvana Patriarca

“…Examples include pairing blackness with negative values (e.g. Giuliani and Lombardi-Diop 2013), failing to develop new procedures for granting formal citizenship to former colonial subjects, and maintaining educational discourses that referred to 'national identity'. Patriarca's work is an important contribution to this new thread of research.…”

Transnational and decolonial Italian Studies: Beyond the focus on curriculum renewal

“…Yet once Italy was unified, Italian governments were quick to embrace and foster their own imperialistic ambitions. As it is well-known, the greatness of the Nation was to be measured also by its colonial possessions and imperial determination; and, after all, Italy's national history has itself been shaped by racist and colonial attitudes towards the South of the country (Giuliani and Lombardi-Diop, 2013;Pugliese, 2007). Italy's colonial enterprises came to constitute a key aspect of its national history, and the Fascist regime reached the apex of political consensus with the birth of the Italian Empire in 1935-1936.…”