A discussion on <i>Il colore della Repubblica. ‘Figli della guerra’ e razzismo nell'Italia postfascista</i>, by Silvana Patriarca, Turin, Einaudi, 2021. With Valeria Deplano, Guri Schwarz and Silvana Patriarca

Over the last 30 years, Silvana Patriarca, a professor of Contemporary History at Fordham University, New York, has deeply and consistently investigated construction Italian national narrative: its ‘long term’ genealogy, characteristics, tensions. Her first book, Numbers Nationhood (Patriarca 1996), focused on co-production statistical knowledge image Italy during Restoration Risorgimento, rereading interplay science, culture, politics in formation bourgeois ‘public opinion’ liberal period. In Vices 2010), she dissected rhetoric tropes character, ostensible fragility, different political uses recurring discourse vices virtues, from Risorgimento to Republic.