Book contents
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Undesirables”
- 2 Little Aliens
- 3 “Not Only a Question of Humanity”
- 4 Growing Up Black in Postwar Italy
- 5 On the Other Side of the Atlantic
- 6 Under “Expert” Eyes
- 7 Black Italians on the Screen
- Interlude
- 8 Ancestries and Identities
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
8 - Ancestries and Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
Book contents
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Undesirables”
- 2 Little Aliens
- 3 “Not Only a Question of Humanity”
- 4 Growing Up Black in Postwar Italy
- 5 On the Other Side of the Atlantic
- 6 Under “Expert” Eyes
- 7 Black Italians on the Screen
- Interlude
- 8 Ancestries and Identities
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 goes back to Antonio Campobasso, the author of Nero di Puglia, in order to reflect on the genesis and the reception of the book and explore the identities of the war children of color through the testimonies of some members of this group whom I was able to interview. This chapter focuses in particular on the meaning of the search for their fathers and on the plural identities that they built for themselves, foregrounding the value that they assign to their African American ancestry.
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- Race in Post-Fascist Italy'War Children' and the Color of the Nation, pp. 166 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022