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Intersectional Italy

Intersectional Italy

Romeo, Caterina
Fabbri, Giulia

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032735422
ISBN13: 9781032735429
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This book questions Italian white innocence and examines the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analysis of different kinds of texts and representations.

Intersectionality - a theoretical and methodological approach focusing on the multidimensional discrimination that individuals and groups experience based on their race, color, gender, and other axes of oppression - has only recently been embraced as an effective methodology in Italy, whose national identity is structured around the chromatic norm of whiteness. The categories of race and color have been almost absent in post-war public debate as well as in scholarly discourse. Feminist movements and theoreticians have mostly placed gender at the core of their analyses, leaving white privilege unchallenged and undertheorized. Colonial and postcolonial studies have linked present-day racism to Italian colonialism, thus shedding light on contemporary incarnations of Empire. In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian white innocence and to examine the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analysis of different kinds of texts and representations. The volume also includes two interviews with writers and intellectuals Djarah Kan and Leaticia Ouedraogo, who discuss how they articulate concepts of intersectionality, Blackness, white privilege, and structural racism in Italian contemporary culture and society.

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