"Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?”: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy

“Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?”: Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy

Jessica Harris (Assistant Professor of History, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) 

3 November 2022, 17:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)

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Jessica Harris, Professor of History at St. John’s University, is a scholar at the intersections of African Diaspora, U.S., and European cultural and gender history.  In 2020, she published the roundly applauded Italian Women’s Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945-1975:  The Italian Mrs. Consumer.   Her talk this week,  “’Permettereste a vostro figlio di sposare Lola?’:  Latent Fascism, American Culture, and Blackness in Postwar Italy” draws on her new, exciting project tentatively titled Black in Italy: African American Women in Post Fascist Italian Culture,  a transnational cultural history on race and gender relations in Italy and the United States.

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