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 [...]
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Racism in Italy in 2018
Institutional racism was a constant in 2018, it was sprinkled in every way and with the use of all the possible tools on the Web and, in a more tangible way, in real life through administrative deeds, directives and new rules such as those contained in Law 132/2018. We have written about this in two different reports during the year (available here in Italian: [...]
Racism in Italy. The chronicle that speaks for itself
Still violent attacks on the streets, in the days just passed, to the detriment of foreign citizens, presumably "guilty" of the sole fact of having a different skin color. It happened in Lercara Friddi (PA), where a young dancer of 23 years, son of Mauritians but born in Italy and adopted after birth, Davide Mangiapane, was beaten and offended with racist phrases ('dirty [...]
Venice: aggression in front of the station
"Abusive! Negro! What are you doing? "Then a head, a kick and a fist to the ribs. The victim is a twenty year old Ghanaian who has offered to transport the luggage to two women in front of the Venice Station. The attackers are two "authorized" carriers of thirty-seven and forty-one years, apparently already known to the local police. The news is reported by Corriere del [...]
The return of the race
Racism preceded and followed the national election in Italy of 4 March under the banner of "return of the race". We report this in a new dossier edited by Lunaria, starting from the 169 cases of discrimination and racism that we documented between January 1 and March 31, 2018, trying to highlight the most worrying trends, the most serious racist violence , the virality of [...]
Chronicles of ordinary racism. The Fourth White Book on Racism in Italy is on-line
Ordinary, legitimized and even flaunted; such is racism of the 4.0 age. The rhetoric of fear, instrumental politics, forms of institutional racism, misleading information, discrimination and widespread racist violence find in the net a space of encounter and mutual contamination. Stigmatizing and aggressive discourses encourage discriminatory acts and behaviors in the real [...]
