Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Matteo Caponi
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/297 Suppl.
Language Italian Pages 38 P. 17-54 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2021-297-S1OA-002
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This article explores how a growing focus on the Black Question framed an anti-racist sensibility in post-WWII Italian Catholicism. The cliché of a natural Catholic anti-racism is herein challenged by investigating interracialism as a mainline pattern: that is a thirdway opposed to both racism and militant, humanitarian and egalitarian anti-racism. The notion of anti-racism actually struggled to be incorporated within Catholic mass culture until the 1960s. This breakthrough was the result of the impact of three world-wide known phenomena: decolonization, apartheid in South Africa, and the US civil rights movement. Ironically, the Cold War anti-Communist psychosis was a driver of Catholic anti-racism: it was vital for preventing the “awakening” of black peoples occurring under Soviet fascination. The pontificate of John XXIII, the Vatican II aggiornamento and the 1968 crisis laid the groundwork for a paradigm shift, as anti-racist attitudes intersected liberal meanings and countercultural revolutionary utopias.
Matteo Caponi, Antirazzismo cattolico e questione nera nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 297 Suppl./2021, pp 17-54, DOI: 10.3280/IC2021-297-S1OA-002