Congratulations, Giulia Riccò for winning the 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies for the forthcoming publication of her book The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil (Fordham University Press). Read on for what the selection committee had to say about Giulia’s manuscript:
"In a bold study of Italian immigration to São Paulo, Brazil, Giulia Riccò’s The Italian Colony of São Paulo: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil transports Italian studies across the Atlantic to new intellectual shores. Her innovative manuscript draws on diaspora studies, mobility studies, and border studies to show how Italians in Brazil were racialized as white, in the process challenging received histories about Italians in the Americas and racial democracy in Brazil. Riccò’s compelling contribution to transnational Italian studies analyzes travelogues, short stories, newspaper columns, political essays, and memoirs to show how this twentieth-century history helps illuminate contemporary Italy’s struggles in addressing its multiethnic and multiracial identity."
Giulia Riccò is an Assistant Professor of Italian whose research and teaching focus on the ways in which the concept of Italian identity has evolved beyond the strict geographical confines of the Italian nation-state and how it has impacted the way we imagine the bel paese.
