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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493232903321

Autore

McLean Eden K.

Titolo

Mussolini's Children : Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy / / Eden K. McLean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4962-0722-X

9781496207227

1-4962-0720-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

372.94509/041

Soggetti

Fascism and youth - Italy - History - 20th century

Fascism - Italy - History - 20th century

Fascism and education - Italy

Electronic books.

Italy Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Defining Fascist power and identity, 1922-29 -- Designing a Fascist elementary education -- "Reawakening the spirit" -- "Fascistizing" the nation and race, 1929-34 -- From instruction to education -- From fit to Fascist -- Resurrecting the Roman Empire, 1934-38 -- "Libro e moschetto, fascista perfetto," 1934-36 -- Educating rulers for the second Roman Empire, 1936-38 -- Ensuring the empire's immortality, 1938-40 -- Enforcing the racial ideal -- Enduring principles of Italian racial identity -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

""Mussolini's Children" uses modern theories of race and biopolitics and the lens of state-mandated youth culture--elementary education and the auxiliary organizations designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy's children between the ages of five and eleven--to understand the evolution of Fascist racism"--