| Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Giuliani, Gaia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137509155 ISBN-13: 9781137509154 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Gender Studies - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 305.3 |
| Series: Mapping Global Racisms |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.16 lbs) 299 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
