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Studying the Black Experience in Fascist Italy
Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, gives a brief overview of the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she contextualises the discursive landscape in which they found themselves in a colonial time when anti-Black propaganda was rife and discusses two case studies from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs archives in Rome.
Primary Sources:
‘Anna and Aden Bin Mohamed’, Ministero Africa Italiana vol. I 1857-1939, Posizione 35/9, Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.
‘Osman Rorá’, Ministero Africa Italiana vol. I 1857-1939, Posizione 35/9…
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