1st Edition
Anti-Southern Racism and Education in Post-War Italy
By Grazia De Michele
Copyright 2023
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the racism against Southern Italian children attending North-Western primary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s. Turin serves as the main case study, having become the "third Southern city" after Naples and Palermo during the considered period.
Far from being a new phenomenon, racism against Southern Italians gained renewed prominence in the context of the post-war... Read more
Introduction
1. Post-war South and Southern migrants in Turin: between imagination and reality
2. Educational otherness
3. Southern children and special education
4. Talking to grown-up children
Conclusions
Biography
Grazia De Michele obtained her PhD in Italian history from the University of Reading. She is currently working towards a second PhD at the University of Genoa and is a member of the Centre for the History of Racism and Anti-Racism in Modern Italy (CENTRA).
