ABSTRACT

This article assesses the role that institutional concern for the possibility of interracial marriages played in the Italian Fascist party’s internal debate regarding the legal status of Libyans in the second half of the 1930s. Following the end of the ‘pacification’ of the Libyan resistance in 1932, Governor Italo Balbo pushed for the region’s demographic colonization and the legal inclusion of the colonial territory and its population within the metropole. In contrast, Fascist Party officials in Rome endorsed starker racial segregation in the colonies based on the racist ideology that permeated the regime after the declaration of the empire in 1936. The legal inclusion of Libyans within the metropolitan body politic touched upon the regime’s most sensitive theme: the need to avoid any promiscuity that could interfere with the racial consciousness of Fascist Italy. This article analyses this dispute through the lens of interracial marriage and concubinage regulations, framing it into the definition of a normative standard of Italian whiteness through the racialization of the colonial Other.

摘要

本文评估了在 1930 年代后半叶意大利法西斯政党关于利比亚人的法律地位的内部辩论中，对异族通婚可能性的制度性关注所扮演的角色。随着 1932 年利比亚抵抗运动的“平息”结束，伊塔洛·巴尔博州长推动了该地区的人口殖民化，并将殖民地领土及其人口合法纳入大都市。相比之下，罗马的法西斯党官员基于 1936 年帝国宣告后渗透到该政权的种族主义意识形态，支持在殖民地实行更严厉的种族隔离。将利比亚人合法纳入大都市政体触及了该政权最敏感的主题: 需要避免任何可能干扰法西斯意大利的种族意识的滥交。本文通过跨种族婚姻和纳妾条例的视角分析了这场争论，通过殖民他者的种族化将其纳入意大利白人规范标准的定义。