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This is the cover of my new book - “Contro il nuovo razzismo in Italia” (Fighting against new racist trends in Italy) - I’m waiting for the proof to arrive in a week or so (finished working at it last night)… This is the book description: “In 1997 I released my research study on multiculturalism and the approach to multicultural issues in some English speaking areas: Canada, the US, and Great Britain. Proposals made included cultural mediation awareness in the public sector, comparative study of legislative and public information tools and solutions in other countries, and a lot of preventive planning. None of this has happened. Quite on the contrary, Italy is now plagued by a sudden rise in xenophobic aggressiveness, new rights-denying local regulations, and a brand new, outspokenly racist legislation. Fighting this trend is not only a political choice, it is also a civic duty. Publishing this 13 years old research can be a contribution in the right direction”. So - why should I, a museum professional, orientalist, and photographer (all things needing hours, months, even years of devoted study and/or traveling) spare some time with this kind of “militant” work? “Perhaps”, as I wrote on the book’s back cover, “because it isn’t at all true that ideologies are dead, and also… because there’s a limit to tolerance” of the crooked setting and all the monkey-business prevailing in today’s Berlusconistan.

This is the cover of my new book - “Contro il nuovo razzismo in Italia” (Fighting against new racist trends in Italy) - I’m waiting for the proof to arrive in a week or so (finished working at it last night)…

This is the book description: “In 1997 I released my research study on multiculturalism and the approach to multicultural issues in some English speaking areas: Canada, the US, and Great Britain. Proposals made included cultural mediation awareness in the public sector, comparative study of legislative and public information tools and solutions in other countries, and a lot of preventive planning. None of this has happened. Quite on the contrary, Italy is now plagued by a sudden rise in xenophobic aggressiveness, new rights-denying local regulations, and a brand new, outspokenly racist legislation. Fighting this trend is not only a political choice, it is also a civic duty. Publishing this 13 years old research can be a contribution in the right direction”.

So - why should I, a museum professional, orientalist, and photographer (all things needing hours, months, even years of devoted study and/or traveling) spare some time with this kind of “militant” work? “Perhaps”, as I wrote on the book’s back cover, “because it isn’t at all true that ideologies are dead, and also… because there’s a limit to tolerance” of the crooked setting and all the monkey-business prevailing in today’s Berlusconistan.

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