Marcella Simoni  is Associate Professor of History and Institutions of Asia at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy and is also affiliated with New York University, Florence. Her research interests include Jews in Asia, civil society in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the history of medicine and public health, a focus on history, memory and trauma, cinema in the Middle East. Davide Lombardo  is Lecturer in History and Liberal Studies at New York University, Florence, Italy and also teaches Political Science at Kent State University Florence. His research focuses on European culture from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries.

• Introduction. The Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Italy in the Twentieth Century. Mobilities, Migrations, Racisms.- How a colonial subject became an Italian citizen. The life and naturalization of Sengal Workneh between colonial Eritrea and Italy (1880-1929).- “Leave it for dogs and horses”: Italy’s Constitutional debate on Stirpe and Razza (1946-1947).- Short-and Long-term consequences of the Racial Laws and the Myth of the Good Italian.- When conflict spills over. Identities, memories, politics and representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Italy. The 1960s.- Between “yellow” and “red”: Stereotypes and racial discourses in 1950s Italian narratives of Communist China.- Racism in Italy and the Italian-Chinese Minority.- Islamophobia: Gender and racialization of religion.- “Africa’s Delivery Room”. The Racialization of Italian Political Discourse on the 80th Anniversary of the Racial Laws.- South of what? In search of Italy’s Others.- The Italian white burden: anti-racism, paternalism and sexism in Italian public discourse.- “Double-Sided Sleights of Hand”: Race in the Mirror.