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Race in Post-Fascist Italy: 'War Children' and the Color of the Nation by Silvana Patriarca 9781108994026

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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.

Explores the untold stories of biracial children born to Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the aftermath of World War Two.

About the Author
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.

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'Through a close analysis of both documentary records from orphanages, schools, and public and Catholic aid agencies, and of popular culture in the form of novels, films, and songs, a sordid picture emerges of racialized thinking regarding these children's perceived otherness with respect to intelligence, aptitude, biology, and citizenship ... Recommended.' R. T. Ingoglia, Choice



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ISBN 9781108994026
Author Silvana Patriarca
Format Paperback
Page Count 219
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press

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