A "sick culture". Essays and manuals on the formation of a racial consciousness in Fascist Italy. A case study (Brescia 1940-1944).

Autor/in	Gabusi, Daria Lucia
Titel	A "sick culture". Essays and manuals on the formation of a racial consciousness in Fascist Italy. A case study (Brescia 1940-1944).
Quelle	In: Espacio, tiempo y educación, 2 (2015) 1, S. 207-229 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 225-229
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2340-7263
DOI	10.14516/ete.2015.002.001.011
Schlagwörter	Methode; Schulbuch; Geschichte (Histor); Antisemitismus; Rassismus; Italien
Abstract	This article, through a 'case study' of essays and textbooks for primary school teachers published in Brescia, a town in Northern Italy, would provide a contribution to the reconstruction of a national history's page (not yet completely studied and known), in which all intellectuals - although restrained in what they could say under a dictatorial regime - had to choose if they would provide a cultural contribution to an ideology that all democracies born in Europe after the Second World War would strongly reject and condemn. By adopting a research method intended to combine the history of the education system with political, cultural and social history, the reading of these texts offers a glimpse of the multifaceted cultural environment within which racist legislation was born and implemented in Italy. These authors demonstrate, at different degrees and levels, how their writings helped to spread the racist ideology of the regime. This page of the history of Italian racism and anti-Semitism, resulting in the end in concentration and death camps and extermination, shows us how words and ideas can become, once disseminated and assimilated, facts justifying the killing of innocent people.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2021/2