Anti-Italianism in sixteenth-century France / / Henry Heller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456235603321
• Autore: Heller Henry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-4426-7089-4; 1-282-02300-4; 9786612023002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.85/1044/09031
• Soggetti: Italians - France - History - 16th century; Xenophobia - France - History - 16th century; Nationalism - France - History - 16th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nationalism and Xenophobia in Early Modern Context -- Chapter 2. Italians and the French Reformation: Lyons, 1562 -- Chapter 3. The Italians at Lyons: Usury and Heresy -- Chapter 4. The Italians and the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre -- Chapter 5. Background to a Massacre: The Italian Courtiers and Bankers -- Chapter 6. Anti-Italian Discourses -- Chapter 7. The Estates of Blois -- Chapter 8. The Court Italians and the Gathering Storm -- Chapter 9. The Flight of the Italians -- Chapter 10. The Last of the Italians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Sixteenth century Europe, like the late twentieth century, did not escape the ravages of ethnic discord. In an examination of the Italian presence in France under the Valois and Bourbon monarchs, Henry Heller explores how the economic power of Italian merchants, bankers, and ecclesiastics provoked a hostile reaction from French humanists, lawyers, and nobles that eventually spread to the Huguenots and the urban Catholic population. He also discusses the important role of ; anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-77, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.Heller links the cultural, moral, and political aspects of anti-Italianism with the rise of economic nationalism among the emergent French middle class. He also sheds light on the origins of the social construction of European anti-Semitism by showing how the language and rhetoric employed by the French against the Italians was similar to that used against Jews elsewhere in Europe. As one of the few studies of ethnic conflict within Renaissance Europe, this ground-breaking work will be indispensable to all scholars of European politics, ethnicity, economics, and history, as well as all those interested in the roots of today's ethnic tensions.

Race men [[electronic resource] /] / Hazel V. Carby

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454563303321
• Autore: Carby Hazel V
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0-674-02919-4
• Descrizione fisica: 228 p. : ill
• Collana: The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures ; ; 1993
• Disciplina: 305.38896073
• Soggetti: African American men in popular culture; Masculinity in popular culture - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-219) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Souls of Black Men -- 2 The Body and Soul of Modernism -- 3 Tuning the American Soul -- 4 Body Lines and Color Lines -- 5 Playin’ the Changes -- 6 Lethal Weapons and City Games -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Who are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race ; Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of The Souls of Black Folk reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois applied to racial achievement and advancement--a code that remains implicitly but firmly in place today in the work of celebrated African American male intellectuals. The career of Paul Robeson, the music of Huddie Ledbetter, and the writings of C. L. R. James on cricket and on the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L'Ouverture, offer further evidence of the social and political uses of representations of black masculinity. In the music of Miles Davis and the novels of Samuel R. Delany, Carby finds two separate but related challenges to conventions of black masculinity. Examining Hollywood films, she traces through the career of Danny Glover the development of a cultural narrative that promises to resolve racial contradictions by pairing black and white men--still leaving women out of the picture. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them.