Fra risanamento religioso e rafforzamiento della razza: il processo di costruzione della memoria dell'immigrazione italiana nel sud del Brasile negli…

2015

The concept of history is crossed by two realities: past events and the narrative of experiences of the human past. More than a reality concreteness, come to us from the past signals that are processed and presented today as representations of the passeité. In the specific case of Italian immigration in southern Brazil, the year 1925 is characterized by a great process of celebration of the Italianity 'the 50th anniversary of the Italians arrival' and a consequent re-interpretation of the dynamics that marked the first Italic settlements in southern Brazil. In an interpretative key that put together fascist policy, political project of the Riograndense Republican Party and social climbing o…