Anti-Southern Racism and Education in Post-War Italy

ISBN-13: 9780367607920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 264 str.

Grazia De Michele

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).