Book contents
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Undesirables”
- 2 Little Aliens
- 3 “Not Only a Question of Humanity”
- 4 Growing Up Black in Postwar Italy
- 5 On the Other Side of the Atlantic
- 6 Under “Expert” Eyes
- 7 Black Italians on the Screen
- Interlude
- 8 Ancestries and Identities
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Under “Expert” Eyes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
Book contents
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Race in Post-Fascist Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “Undesirables”
- 2 Little Aliens
- 3 “Not Only a Question of Humanity”
- 4 Growing Up Black in Postwar Italy
- 5 On the Other Side of the Atlantic
- 6 Under “Expert” Eyes
- 7 Black Italians on the Screen
- Interlude
- 8 Ancestries and Identities
- Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 examines the attitudes toward the offspring of interracial unions that characterized some influential members of the Italian scientific community in the postwar years. After reviewing scientific and pseudoscientific opinions about racial mixing from the beginning of the century to the postwar period, I focus on the making of a ponderous anthropometric study on the war children of color published in 1960. Its author was Luigi Gedda, a doctor-geneticist and former president of Catholic Action, who advised Pius XII on matters of reproduction. The chapter contrasts the attitudes of Gedda and other doctors and geneticists to those of psychologists.
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- Race in Post-Fascist Italy'War Children' and the Color of the Nation, pp. 123 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022