Participant Info
- First Name
- Silvana
- Last Name
- Patriarca
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY
- patriarca@fordham.edu
- Affiliation
- Fordham University
- Website URL
- https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/history/faculty/silvana-patriarca/
- Keywords
- nationalism, racism, modern Italy, modern Europe, gender, fascism and extreme right, antifascism,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I specialize in the socio-cultural history of modern Italy and in particular in the history of nationalism in its intersections with gender and race. I have studied the cultural construction of ideas of Italy and Italian national identity in statistical surveys and censuses and in the discourse of national character from the time of the struggle for national independence to the present. In my most recent work I focused on the history of racism and antiracism and on the construction of the Italian people as “white” from fascism to the democratic Republic.
- Recent Publications
Race in Post-Fascist Italy: “War Children” and the Color of the Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Coe-editor of the special issue of Modern Italy on “Nation, ‘Race’ and Racisms in 20th-Century Italy”, 23:4 (November 2018).
Co-editor of The Risorgimento Revisited. Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Palgrave 2012).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Italy
- Expertise by Geography
- Mediterranean, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Race
