Mussolini's Children
eBook - ePub

Mussolini's Children

Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mussolini's Children

Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy

About this book

Mussolini's Children uses the lens of state-mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism in Fascist Italy. Between 1922 and 1940, educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy's children between the ages of five and eleven undertook a mission to rejuvenate the Italian race and create a second Roman Empire. This project depended on the twin beliefs that the Italian population did indeed constitute a distinct race and that certain aspects of its moral and physical makeup could be influenced during childhood. Eden K. McLean assembles evidence from state policies, elementary textbooks, pedagogical journals, and other educational materials to illustrate the contours of a Fascist racial ideology as it evolved over eighteen years. Her work explains how the most infamous period of Fascist racism, which began in the summer of 1938 with the publication of the "Manifesto of Race, " played a critical part in a more general and long-term Fascist racial program.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Common Acronyms
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1
  11. 1. Designing a Fascist Elementary Education
  12. 2. “Reawakening the Spirit”
  13. Part 2
  14. 3. From Instruction to Education
  15. 4. From Fit to Fascist
  16. Part 3
  17. 5. Libro e moschetto, fascista perfetto, 1934–36
  18. 6. Educating Rulers for the Second Roman Empire, 1936–38
  19. Part 4
  20. 7. Enforcing the Racial Ideal
  21. 8. Enduring Principles of Italian Racial Identity
  22. Conclusion
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. About Eden K. McLean
  27. Illustrations