ISBN:
9781108991254
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 209 Seiten)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800945/0904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1945-
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Racially mixed people / Italy / Social conditions / 20th century
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Blacks / Italy / Social conditions / 20th century
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Rassismus
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Interethnische Herkunft
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Schwarze
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Italy / Race relations / History / 20th century
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Italy / History / 1945-
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Italien
;
Italien
;
Schwarze
;
Interethnische Herkunft
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Rassismus
;
Geschichte 1945-
Abstract:
Focusing on the experiences and representations of the 'brown babies' born at the end of World War Two from the encounters between Black Allied soldiers and Italian women, this book explores the persistence of racial thinking and racism in post-fascist and postcolonial Italy. Through the use of a large variety of historical sources, including personal testimonies and the cinema, Silvana Patriarca illustrates Italian - and also American - responses to what many considered a 'problem'. She sensitively analyses the perceptions of race/color among different actors, such as state and local authorities, Catholic clerics, filmmakers, geneticists, psychologists, and ordinary people, and her book is rich in detail about their impact on the lives of the children. Uncovering the pervasiveness of anti-Black prejudice in the early democratic republic, as well as the presence and limitations of anti-racist sensibilities, Race in Post-Fascist Italy allows us to better understand Italy's conflicted reaction to its growing diversity
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2022)
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"Undesirables" : foreigners and women in the postwar -- Little "aliens"? Representing the "mulattini" -- "Not only a question of humanity" : assisting the "mulattini" -- Growing up Black in postwar Italy -- On the American side of the Atlantic -- Under "expert" eyes -- Black Italians on screen : two films of the 1960s -- Interlude. A story from a Calabrian village -- Ancestries and identities
DOI:
10.1017/9781108991254
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991254
