For much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy's Sea:
Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least …

Black Spaces examines how space and place are racialized, and the impacts on everyday
experiences among African Italians, immigrants, and refugees. It explores the deeply …

This article investigates the political activism of youth of migrant descent mobilizing to
achieve access to citizenship rights in Italy. Specifically, it focuses on the mobilizing …

By drawing on qualitative interviews with Sub-Saharan African international protection
holders/seekers, conducted in Sicily in 2016/2017, the article investigates how hierarchies of …

This chapter is concerned with the role and function of Black African fugitive sites in the
context of a rapidly changing European border regime since the outbreak of the Libyan war …

Coming to terms with the long-term impact of empires and decolonizations and selectively
(however reluctantly) grappling with their diverse histories and legacies count as widely …

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 …

This article develops an innovative approach to intersectional biographical interviewing for
researchers working with highly diverse, partly unknown populations and focusing on …

Most scholarly analyses of memory politics investigate how historical events are
remembered selectively in order to justify political choices. Recent research has shown that …

This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that
reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and …