Race and Racialization in Italy

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THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE AT NYU-FLORENCE.The course aims at introducing students into contemporary academic debates on race and racism in Italy. Issues of race, ethnicity and belonging will be explored through a sociological approach and intersectional lens. Gender and class, as well as other oppressions, will be taken into account in order to define how they interlock with each other in 2022 Italy. The course will offer a historical introduction of race and racism in Italy. In doing so importance will be given to the inward/outward double colonial drive, challenging the idea of a racially and culturally homogeneous Italy. As we move into contemporaneity, bibliographical references will be integrated with different cultural productions such as documentaries and movies, song lyrics and music videos, poetry, etc. The materials will constitute a peculiar archive on race and racialization in the country. The pars destruens, where specific Italian racial regimes will be uncovered, will be balanced by a pars construens, where we will focus on how racialized subjects negotiate, challenge, and defy the racial symbolic and material order.