ABSTRACT

Generations of African and Black Italians are extending the boundaries of what it means to be Italian, in the face of denial, diversion, and an insistence on whiteness as the measure of inclusion, and humanity. Drawing on Allan Pred’s work on racist geographies of the everyday and taken-for-granted in Sweden, I advance the concepts of B/black spaces and relational places to approach to the study of identity, belonging, and place in Black Europe, with a focus on Italy. Black and African Italians from diverse origins and generations are asserting their belonging in Italy. Pred’s work on every day situated practices, power relations, taken-for-granted knowledge, and silences, is useful to contemporary scholarship in Black geographies, antiracist and decolonial scholarship. Pred’s holistic studies of modernity and the impacts of global political and economic transformations in lived experiences demonstrate the centrality of racism to national societies and cultures. His work is valuable to scholars of modern Western colonial systems of knowledge production and power, advancing insights and encouraging new directions based on abundant, ordinary yet silenced everyday realities and experiences. This paper expands on Pred’s work through an analysis of Blackness, place and belonging in Italy, offering an approach to the study of African Diaspora in Europe.

摘要

面对否认、转移以及坚持将白人作为包容性和人性的衡量标准，几代非洲人和黑人意大利人正在扩展意大利人的界限。借鉴艾伦·普雷德（Allan Pred）关于日常生活中的种族主义地理学和瑞典理所当然的种族主义地理学的著作，我提出了B/黑人空间和关系场所的概念研究黑欧的身份、归属感和地位，重点关注意大利。来自不同血统和世代的黑人和非洲裔意大利人正在维护自己对意大利的归属。普雷德关于日常情境实践、权力关系、理所当然的知识和沉默的研究，对当代黑人地理学、反种族主义和非殖民主义学术很有用。普雷德对现代性以及全球政治和经济转型对生活经历的影响进行了整体研究，证明了种族主义对国家社会和文化的中心地位。他的作品对于研究现代西方殖民体系的知识生产和权力的学者来说很有价值，基于丰富、普通但沉默的日常现实和经验，提出了见解并鼓励新的方向。