italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear colleagues,
Please find below details of the next research event organised
by White Spaces network (CERS), SMLC, and Italian@leeds:
Wednesday 23rd October 2013
Presentation and discussion of
Bianco e Nero. Storia dell'identità razziale degli italiani, by Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardio-Diop (Florence: Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2013)
With co-author Gaia Giuliani and responses by Shona Hunter (White Spaces/Sociology) and Angelica Pesarini (Italian/Sociology, Leeds).
Chaired by Gigliola Sulis (Italian).
Place: University of Leeds
Venue: Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI) seminar room
Time: 4-6pm
Followed by a wine reception. All welcome
Bianco e nero. Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani traces back the political, cultural and visual history of Italian racial identity from the Unity to the economic boom, through Fascism and post-bellum time. This book puts together skills and research from two Italian women scholars of a different background whose shared effort exemplifies the rich possibilities of a multidisciplinary approach to race and racial identity: Gaia Giuliani uses analytical categories coming from Political philosophy, Critical race Theory, Whiteness Studies and Postcolonial Studies, and examines political theories of race, scientific literature and legislation related to emigration in order to trace the different processes of self-racialisation in the political discourse from the unitary period up to 1936. Cristina Lombardi-Diop, who moves from Critical Race Theory and Cultural Studies, takes in consideration the discoursive medical-scientifical practices, colonial literature and whiteness iconography related to consumption and daily life in order to map racialization processes that, from 1936 to 1965, took place in mainstream and mass culture. The volume wants to contribute to the growing research field of studies on race and identity in Italy, locating the discourse on the racial identity of Italians in a historiographical national and transnational perspective.
The last section of the book focuses on Italian contemporary racism, analysing mass culture products (1980s-2007), TV covering of some relevant racist events (2010-2012), and the intertwining of masculinity, virility, whiteness and race in Berlusconi’s sexual scandals.
Gaia Giuliani is research assistant in Political Theory and Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Bologna. After her PhD (University of Torino) she has been post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bologna. She has been also Endeavour Research fellow (2009-2010) at the University of Technology Sydney. Her first single-authored book Beyond curiosity. James Mill e la nascita del governo coloniale britannico in India has been published in 2008. In 2014, Bianco e nero will be followed by the collective book she will edit on Italian contemporary racism titled provisionally Il colore bianco – genere, razza e bianchezza nell’Italia contemporanea (Ediesse). In 2013 she has become Secretary of the Editors of the Italian academic journal Studi Culturali and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Australian academic journal Settler Colonial Studies. In 2013 she has become member of the organising collective of the international and interdiscipinary network White Spaces at the University of Leeds.
Best wishes,
Federica Pich
Dr Federica Pich
Lecturer in Italian
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
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