Introduction : Contested Borders in the Time of Monsters -- Italian Ethnonationalism and the Limits of Citizenship -- Black Entrepreneurs and the "(Re)Making" of Italy -- Mediterraneanism, Africa, and the Borders of Italianness -- Translation and the Lived Geographies of the Black Mediterranean -- Refugees and Citizens-in-Waiting -- Conclusion : Looking South.
Summary
"Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this book explores the political mobilizations of Black Italians, the children of African and Afro-Latinx immigrants who were born and raised in Italy, as they engage with questions of citizenship, state racism, and global Black diasporic interconnection"-- Provided by publisher.