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Un portale dedicato all'esperienza degli Afro-Italiani in Italia ma anche alla storia della presenza della diaspora Africana in Italia. We bring you over 2000 years of Black History in Italy and Europe.
27 lut 2019 · In those days, black women went to the nunneries, and black men went to the army. However, when Italy invaded Ethiopia in the 1930s, led by Hitler-like Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, it notably became an issue to be black. Afro-Italians have made important strides across sport and pop culture.
9 sie 2023 · In February 2020, Vogue Italia featured a cover that portrayed the young Maty Fall Diba, an Italian model of Senegalese origin, in a white dress, holding the words ‘Italy’ in her hands, and the words Italian beauty.
22 sie 2022 · Published on 22/08/2022 - 11:22 GMT+2. African Italians are frequently cast as outsiders in Italian society even though their history goes back decades. After moving to Italy from...
7 gru 2020 · Scego punctures that identity and traces a vector through which another violent history—a nuanced Black history—of Italy can be told. The Fountain of the Four Moors becomes a testament to Italy’s complicity in the systematic, global devaluation of Black lives across time.
The focus of this study will be a defining historical phase of Italian colonialism, between the proclamation of the Empire in 1936 and the early 1940s. After the conquest of Ethiopia, a series of laws ‘inaugurated specific forms of racist discourses and practices peculiar to the late Fascist period’ (Sorgoni 2002, 1).
25 sie 2020 · Marianna Griffini argues that the Black Lives Matter movement has exposed racial undertones within Italian society that can be traced back to Italy's Empire.
