Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Francesco Cassata
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/297 Suppl. Language Italian
Pages 31 P. 180-210 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2021-297-S1OA-008
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The article focuses on two specific moments in the recent history of Italian scientific antiracism: first, the 2008 San Rossore “Manifesto of the Anti-Racist Scientists”; secondly, the campaign for the elimination of the word “race” from the Constitution of the Italian Republic that developed between 2014 and 2018. Through these examples, it will be apparent how the memory of the 1938 “Manifesto of the Racial Scientists” still casts a shadow over current Italian anti-racism, by restricting its discourse and action to the anachronistic condemnation of Nazi-styled biological racism. The article shows how this political and ideological configuration presents two main shortcomings: on the one hand, it contributes to the actual de-historicization of fascist racism and antisemitism; on the other, it is instrumental to the parallel de-historicization of scientifi c anti-racism. In the conclusion, the article opens a window on the possible ways for reshaping anti-racism in Italy, by making it free from the mimetic relationship with 1930s racism and antisemitism as well as by adapting it to the challenges of the post-genomic era.
Keywords: ; Race, Racism, Scientifi c Anti-Racism, Unesco Statements on Race, Race Manifesto, Cavalli-Sforza
Francesco Cassata, Nel nome della scienza. Limiti e aporie dell’antirazzismo scientifico italiano in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 297 Suppl./2021, pp 180-210, DOI: 10.3280/IC2021-297-S1OA-008