Abstract: Recent critical race theory suggests that, in the modern period, categories of race, gender, nation, and sexuality are mutually constitutive and largely indistinguishable. This essay explores the historical co-constitution of Italian racial identity and homosexuality in several works of literature from the early twentieth century, one written in English, the others, in Italian. In […]
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Queer Black Italy and the Politics of Experience
I recently took an invaluable and enlightening course designed to help instructors add material on Italians of African descent — or what is increasingly called Black Italy—to the Italian Studies curriculum. The course was a rich resource of information on many aspects of Black Italy, from its history to its presence in contemporary culture. In […]