racism and antisemitism in fascist italy: the politics, ideology, and imagery of la difesa della raza

This book provides a thorough analysis of the texts and images of the magazine La Difesa della razza (Defence of the race), the principal public voice of Fascist biological racism between 1938 and 1943.

Francesco Cassata is Full Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genoa. He has published extensively on the history of eugenics, on Cold War science and the history of the ’Lysenko controversy’ in Italy, and on the history of molecular biology in Italy and Europe.