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 …

This article, based on 16 months of in-depth interviews and participant observation
conducted over five years, explores the participation of young Afro-Italian women …

Il diritto antidiscriminatorio tende a concepire l'identità delle donne e le loro esperienze di
discriminazione come monoliti a sé stanti, prendendo in considerazione una categoria …

Era la sera del 12 luglio 2016. La città era sempre più elettrizzata per l'inizio imminente dei
Giochi olimpici. L'aria era afosa, umida, insolitamente calda per l'inverno carioca, le strade …

Drawing on postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist epistemologies, this thesis investigated
the Othering representations made about Italian Muslim women in public, media, and …

My essay explores processes of naturalisation and inferiorisation of the racialised Other in a
series of colonial and postcolonial situations. Its aim is to map colour assignments along …

ABSTRACT What is race? The Italian case While race is being dismissed as a scientific
category, it exists as a socio-symbolic category producing racializing dynamics which …

Drawing on a reflection on Islam and Muslims in Italy, and adopting a gendered perspective,
the essay provides a contribution to the analysis of media representations of Islam …

This dissertation contributes to the discourse on'geographies of fear', which has highlighted
how constructions of safety in public spaces are deeply gendered. By exploring women's …

Chapter 4 is centered on the categories of race and color and analyzes how Blackness has
been and still is considered alien to the social, political, cultural, and symbolic space of the …