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This book investigates the racism against Southern Italian children attending North-Western primary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s. Turin serves as the main case study, having become the "third Southern city" after Naples and Palermo during the considered period. Far from being a new phenomenon, racism against Southern Italians gained renewed prominence in the context of the post-war mass internal migrations, becoming one of the pillars of the process of nation-rebuilding. However, in spite of its relevance, it has not received the attention it deserves. By drawing on a wide range of sources – printed, archival, photographic, and oral – and situating itself at the intersection of the history of racism, of education, of psychiatry, and of psychology, the book aims to fill this gap and to add to the debate on the borders that nation-states establish to control the access to power of the different groups inhabiting their territories. Its interdisciplinarity makes it suitable for students and researchers across a variety of subject areas.
Come mai la corruzione ha così lunga vita nella storia del nostro paese? Come mai resiste ad ogni epoca e ad ogni regime politico? Come mai in questo campo non si riesce a trovare niente di veramente dissuasivo, niente che provi ad estirparla nel costume, nel comportamento, nell’atteggiamento degli attori coinvolti? Come mai questo tratto di continuità nella storia d’Italia, questo elemento costante, capillare, quasi costitutivo del funzionamento delle istituzioni nel nostro paese, non si riesce ad interromperlo? Perché ciò che è accaduto nel passato continua ad accadere oggi? A queste domande, ricostruendo alcuni dei principali scandali dal 1861 ad oggi, provano a rispondere gli au...