![]() Angelica also analyzes the racialization of the current Italian political discourse on immigration and the repercussions of xenophobic and anti-Black discourses in Italian society. ![]() After spending 10 years in the UK, Angelica moved back to Italy in 2017 in order to design and teach “Black Italia,” an NYU Florence course that focuses on the intersectional analysis of racial identity in Italy. She felt the urge to conduct research on this topic not only because her family history is bound up in Italy’s colonial invasion of East Africa, but also because she couldn’t find her story in history textbooks. Her research investigates dynamics of race performativity and the negotiations of identity carried out by some Black “mixed-race” Italians who were born in the former Italian colonies in East Africa during the Fascist regime and who migrated to Italy at the end of the 1960s. When a new wave of global Black-liberation uprisings erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Camilla (who had also become involved in “defund the police” organizing in her home of Santa Cruz, CA) became deeply interested in thinking about how the framework of abolition might travel and be taken up in novel ways by Black antiracist activists in Italy.Īngelica Pesarini is a sociologist working on the intersections among race, identity, and citizenship in Italy. As a self-identified “italo-afroamericana” (with Italian citizenship thanks to the same descent-based nationality laws that disenfranchise many of her Black Italian friends and interlocutors) based in the United States, she is interested in the possibilities for and challenges to Black diasporic solidarity, as well as the practices of translation by which diasporic resources circulate transnationally. From 2012 to 2019, she conducted ethnographic research on Black Italian mobilizations for recognition and citizenship in Italy-the basis of her forthcoming book with Cornell University Press. Camilla Hawthorne is a scholar who studies race and Blackness in contemporary Italy. ![]()
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