Scholars and politicians often assume a significant gap between the ways that Americans
and Europeans think about race. According to this template, in the US race is associated …

Contesting Race and Citizenship is an original study of Black politics and varieties of
political mobilization in Italy. Although there is extensive research on first-generation …

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and
refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the …

In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted from the cultures
and societies of former formal colonies to those countries that have an explicit self …

The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the
end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960 …

Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational,
postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in …

This contribution looks at the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that took place in Bolzano-
Bozen, the capital of the autonomous province of South Tyrol (Italy). As part of the BLM …

Italian postcolonial literature has been one of the most historically relevant, culturally
incisive, and artistically revitalizing phenomena to emerge in the past twenty-five years. It …

In the following survey, I examine the important literary and cultural contributions to Italian
literature and culture offered by writers who maintain a postcolonial relationship of some …

In this article, I will examine how second-generation writers such as Igiaba Scego and Ubax
Cristina Ali Farah represent the social changes that postcolonial Italy is undergoing …