Black Italy: Historical Erasures and Contemporary Contestations

Join the Race, Coloniality and Migration in Europe working group for the first installation of our speaker series on "Colonialism, Fascism and European Innocence" in conversation with Kwanza Musi Dos Santos, an Italian Afrobrazilian activist raised in Rome and co-founder of the anti-racist social organisation QuestaèRoma. Kwanza will draw on her personal and activism experience to illuminate the ramifications of racial formation in Italy’s national discourse and their enduring impact on contemporary politics and society. In conversation with Black Europe’s wider effort to demystify “European innocence”, Kwanza will illustrate how Black Italians’ activism challenges processes of historical erasure and exposes their deep entanglement with the legacies of fascism and colonialism.

Sponsored By:

Race, Coloniality and Migration in Europe Working Group

European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center

The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund
Department of Italian Studies
Department of Anthropology