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Fra risanamento religioso e rafforzamiento della razza: il processo di costruzione della memoria dell'immigrazione italiana nel sud del Brasile negli anni 1920

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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 of the colonial elite, the immigration process (or rather civilizing process) is described with a particular emphasis on the idea of a successful experience, wherein the pioneers brought prosperity and sound morality to the southern Brazil borders. The Album of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian colonization in Rio Grande do Sul has become the main space in the production of memories about the Peninsular immigration process and the starting point of mnemonic interpretations produced in other times of ethnic celebration. The representations of the good Catholic and strong race are ideas-images greatly developed in the memorial narrative of the 50 years of the immigration and became an emblem of Italian identity in Brazilian pampas.