L'Italiano Negro

Giuliani, Gaia

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2013.851828

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“…These arguments take on a unique valence in Italy. Since national unification at the end of the nineteenth century, efforts to define Italian national-racial identity have had to contend with Italy's proximity to the African continent (Giuliani, 2014). The extent to which Italians could be considered truly 'white' due to centuries of Mediterranean mixing was subject to heated debate (Guglielmo & Salerno, 2012).…”

Section: The Afro-mediterranean Renaissance In Italymentioning

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Making Italy: Afro-Italian entrepreneurs and the racial boundaries of citizenship

Hawthorne

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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This article, based on 16 months of in-depth interviews and participant observation conducted over five years, explores the participation of young Afro-Italian women entrepreneurs in new initiatives related to Black beauty, style, and (natural) hair care. While based primarily in northern Italy, these projects draw on economic and cultural connections to the broader Black diaspora. I argue that entrepreneurship has emerged as an important strategy for Afro-Italian women seeking to advance new narratives about Blackness (and specifically, Black womanhood) and its inclusion within the material and symbolic boundaries of Italy. At the same time, Afro-Italian entrepreneurship is transforming Italian material culture, and, by extension, the meanings of Italianness itself. Entrepreneurship is thus a key terrain of struggle through which Afro-Italians have begun to assert claims to Italian citizenship and belonging in the context of both economic stagnation and a refugee 'emergency'. It is one example of a nascent Black spatial politics in Italy that is conditioned by, but also pushes back against, dominant regimes of racist exclusion and neoliberal racial capitalism.

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Making Italy: Afro-Italian entrepreneurs and the racial boundaries of citizenship

Hawthorne

2019

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…One of these hangovers certainly concerned the relationship with race and black colonial alterity. While racism predated the establishment of the regime, it was under Fascism that it was radicalised, institutionalised, and made into an explicit and constitutive element of the Italian state and of national identity (Gillette 2002, 1–4; Giuliani 2014). After the fall of the regime, references to race were removed from public discourse together with Italy’s colonial responsibilities, while they kept operating on a deeper level, and shaping attitudes and forms of national identity (Mellino 2012, 88–93; Lombardi-Diop 2012, 175–177; Giuliani and Lombardi-Diop 2013, 21–65; Portelli 2003, 33–34).…”

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‘Books written by the so-called colonials or half-bloods’: Italian publishers’ reception of novels by the Windrush writers in the 1950s and 1960s

Pennacchietti

2018

Mod. Italy

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This article contributes to the expanding body of scholarship investigating the problematic correlations between racism, the legacy of colonialism, and configurations of national and cultural identity in post-war Italy. It does so through a yet unexplored perspective: that of the attitude of Italian publishing towards literature from former colonies. More specifically, it examines the reception of anglophone Caribbean novels written by ‘Windrush writers’ in the 1950s and 1960s. The article provides evidence of how Italian agents and publishers – belonging to the country’s intellectual elite, and many of whom publicly espoused anticolonial positions – not only proved to be more interested in the exotic, picturesque contents of Caribbean literature than in its historical, ideological, and political significance, but sometimes actively opposed the circulation of texts containing anticolonial or pro-Black identity claims. Some of their comments demonstrate the persistence of racist and derogatory assumptions of an imagined black and colonial Other, and a negation of their identity as both political subjects and cultural producers, if they failed to conform to dominant expectations. The expectations and the evaluation criteria active in the reception of Caribbean novels allow for an assessment of the ambiguous attitude of Italian publishing agents towards colonialism, race, and alterity.

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The Habesha Italians: The Black Mediterranean and the Second-Generation Condition

Grimaldi

2021

The Black Mediterranean

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L'Italiano Negro

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

Making Italy: Afro-Italian entrepreneurs and the racial boundaries of citizenship

Making Italy: Afro-Italian entrepreneurs and the racial boundaries of citizenship

‘Books written by the so-called colonials or half-bloods’: Italian publishers’ reception of novels by the Windrush writers in the 1950s and 1960s

The Habesha Italians: The Black Mediterranean and the Second-Generation Condition

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