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6 - Under “Expert” Eyes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

Silvana Patriarca
Affiliation:
Fordham University, New York
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Chapter 6 examines the attitudes toward the offspring of interracial unions that characterized some influential members of the Italian scientific community in the postwar years. After reviewing scientific and pseudoscientific opinions about racial mixing from the beginning of the century to the postwar period, I focus on the making of a ponderous anthropometric study on the war children of color published in 1960. Its author was Luigi Gedda, a doctor-geneticist and former president of Catholic Action, who advised Pius XII on matters of reproduction. The chapter contrasts the attitudes of Gedda and other doctors and geneticists to those of psychologists.

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Race in Post-Fascist Italy
'War Children' and the Color of the Nation
, pp. 123 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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