Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (Mapping Global Racisms)

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the unification of Italy (1861) to the present day. Giuliani draws attention to rearticulations of the transnationally constructed Italian ‘colonial archive’ in Italian racialised identity-politics and cultural racisms across processes of nation building, emigration, colonial expansion, and the construction of the first post-fascist Italian society. The author considers the ‘figures of race’ peopling the Italian colonial archive as composing past and present ideas and representations of (white) Italianness and racialised/gendered Otherness. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest. This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the unification of Italy (1861) to the present day. Giuliani draws attention to rearticulations of the transnationally constructed Italian 'colonial archive' in Italian racialised identity-politics and cultural racisms across processes of nation building, emigration, colonial expansion, and the construction of the first post-fascist Italian society. The author considers the 'figures of race' peopling the Italian colonial archive as composing past and present ideas and representations of (white) Italianness and racialised/gendered Otherness. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest.-- Provided by publisher Annotation This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the unification of Italy (1861) to the present day. Giuliani draws attention to rearticulations of the transnationally constructed Italian 'colonial archive' in Italian racialised identity-politics and cultural racisms across processes of nation building, emigration, colonial expansion, and the construction of the first post-fascist Italian society. The author considers the 'figures of race' peopling the Italian colonial archive as composing past and present ideas and representations of (white) Italianness and racialised/gendered Otherness. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv General Introduction (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 1-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-30 Race, Gender, and the Early Colonial Imaginary (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 31-64 Race, Gender, and the Fascist Colonial Imaginary (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 65-108 Front Matter ....Pages 109-119 The White Male Gaze in Italian Cine-reportage, Mondo Movie, and Soft-porn, 1960s–1970s (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 121-148 Black Venuses Between Colonial Memory and Global Horizons (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 149-170 Front Matter ....Pages 171-178 Visualising Race in Italian Public and Private Television (1980s–2010s) (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 179-207 Silent and Exoticised, Criminal, or Victim: The New Racial Paradigm (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 209-240 Conclusions (Gaia Giuliani)....Pages 241-252 Back Matter ....Pages 253-299