ABSTRACT The Introductory Essay places the articles collected in the dossier within current debates on race, gender and nation. First, it examines the notion of “Latin” eugenics, both as a non-hereditarian approach to race improvement and a form of Fascist cultural diplomacy based on the export of Italian racial knowledge. Second, it explores the way in which the visual representation of women's bodies shaped the “eugenics gaze” of an idealized racial nation, as well as her racial “others”. Third, it analyses the racialization of immigration by looking at how dominant groups established eugenics preferences for certain foreigners based on popular assumptions of moral worth and physical strength.

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健美的身体，强大的种族，现代国家

摘要 介绍性文章将档案中收集的文章置于当前关于种族、性别和国家的辩论中。首先，它考察了“拉丁”优生学的概念，既是一种非遗传的种族改良方法，也是一种基于意大利种族知识输出的法西斯文化外交形式。其次，它探讨了女性身体的视觉表现如何塑造了一个理想化的种族国家以及她的种族“其他人”的“优生学凝视”。第三，它通过观察占主导地位的群体如何根据道德价值和体力的流行假设对某些外国人建立优生学偏好来分析移民的种族化。