The assault of Beatrice Ion, a basketball athlete suffering from polio, on 9 July in Ardea, and that against a Bengali street vendor whose name we do not know, pushed by two young men in the Naviglio in Milan two days ago, are not isolated cases. 7,426 are the cases of discrimination and racism documented by Lunaria between 1 January 2008 and 31 March 2020. Among them, 901 [...]
Chronicles of Ordinary Racism
Chronicles of Ordinary Racism. Third White Paper on Racism in Italy
Almost three years down the line, Lunaria has gone back to telling the Tales of everyday racism that define public and social life in our country. We have done so, this time, by casting our sights towards Europe, where last spring’s elections revealed a growing tide of nationalist, xenophobic and populist sentiment. This study is the result of the daily monitoring, reporting, i [...]
