Blackness in Italy: Histories, Subjectivities, and Contemporary Challenges

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course offers a critical examination of the social conditions of Black Italians today, at the intersection of gender, race and class inequalities with a focus on their lived experience and calls for structural change. Within the frame of decolonial and critical race theory, the course explores the theoretical and cultural production of the descendants of the Black diaspora in Italy.