RISULTATI RICERCA

Il movimento afro-americano per i diritti civili ABSTRACT: Nadia Venturini analyzes Afro-American historiography in recent decades in the field of the civil rights movement. Until the early 1980s research placed a strong emphasis on leadership, and the debate was focused on Martin Luther King and the main organizations; over the last two decades new sources and methodologies have shifted the focus to local communities and struggles, with a special emphasis on grassroots activism.

Oblio e memorie della schiavitù ABSTRACT: Gabriele Turi analyzes the prolonged silence regarding both victims and persecutors of the Atlantic slave trade, and the recent initiatives of Unesco and some of the countries involved. The picture that emerges is highly varied, ranging from the restoration of fortresses and castles in Ghana, Senegal and Benin to monuments, school programmes and commemorations. The investigation indicates that memories are extremely fragmented, stronger among Afro-Americans and the Caribbean countries than in African countries. But it also shows the difficulties on the part of the states responsible for the slave trade in formulating expressions of regret, lest the descendants of the victims demand economic compensation.

Insorgenze controrivoluzionarie e antinapoleoniche in Italia (1796-1814). Presunti complotti e sedicenti storici ABSTRACT: Massimo Cattaneo analyzes the historical revisionism of confessional character, published in Italy between 1989 and 1999, in the wake of the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution and of the Italian sister republics of 1796-99. Various associations and traditionalist conservative Catholic historians promoted colloquia, exhibitions and publications that were explicitly and polemically against academic historiography, described by them as dominated by liberal-marxist culture. What they produced was wholly without scientific interest, but made evident their ties to elements in the Catholic church, politics, mass media and universities. In Oblio e memorie della schiavitù

Gramsci e la guerra: dal giornalismo alla riflessione storica ABSTRACT: Angelo d’Orsi’s essay is dedicated to Antonio Gramsci as a journalist during the frst world war. He examines the social and political context in which Gramsci’s support of active neutrality, expressed in particular in the Turin Il Grido del Popolo and, from December 1915, in the Turin edition of Avanti!, was rejected by the socialists as an expression of mussolinism and intervention.

Egemonia leninista, egemonia gramsciana ABSTRACT: Anna Di Biagio’s essay reconstructs the mix of contrasts and agreement between Gramsci’s writings and the statements of authoritative leaders of the international communist movement (above all, Lenin). This makes possible a more precise identification than hitherto of the sources from which Gramsci derived the suggestions and examples which subsequently entered into his concept of hegemony, elaborated in systematic form in the Prison Notebooks.

Che Guevara, il mito da un secolo all’altro ABSTRACT: The Editorial is dedicated to the myth of Ernesto Che Guevara. Through an analysis not only of works that propose a historical reconstruction, but also of films, songs and merchandising utilizing the Che image, Gianpasquale Santomassimo poses the question of the persistence of a myth that seems to be unique (at least in twentieth century left-wing circles). Its passage from one century to the next (to cite the title) has consolidated its success, especially among the young, albeit changing in shape, content and political implications. In the Discussion section