Paradigms of postcoloniality in contemporary Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop and Caterina Romeo -- The Italian postcolonial / Robert J.C. Young -- Part 1. European and global trajectories -- The new European migratory regime and the shifting patterns of contemporary racism / Sandro Mezzadra -- The postcolonial turn in Italian studies : European perspectives / Sandra Ponzanesi -- The emigrant post-"colonia" in contemporary immigrant Italy / Teresa Fiore -- De-provincializing Italy : notes on race, racialization, and Italy's coloniality / Miguel Mellino -- Part II. Shared memories, contested proximities -- Hidden faces, hidden histories : contrasting voices of postcolonial Italy / Alessandro Triulzi -- Shooting the colonial past in contemporary Italian cinema : effects of deferral in Good morning Aman / Derek Duncan -- Italians DOC : posing and passing from Giovanni Finati to Amara Lakhous / Barbara Spackman -- Pier Paolo Pasolini in Eritrea : subalternity, grace, nostalgia, and the "rediscovery" of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa / Giovanna Trento -- Southerners, migrants, colonized : a postcolonial perspective on Carlo Levi's Cristo si e fermato a Eboli and southern Italy today / Roberto Derobertis --

Part III. Intimations and intimacies of race -- Postracial/postcolonial Italy / Cristina Lombardi-Diop -- Blaxploitation Italian style : exhuming and consuming the colonial Black Venus in 1970s cinema in Italy / Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto -- Screening intimacy and racial difference in postcolonial Italy / Aine O'Healy -- Racial evaporations : representing Blackness in African Italian postcolonial literature / Caterina Romeo -- Part IV. Postnational aesthetics, transcultural production -- On the periphery of Nollywood : Nigerian video filmmaking in Italy and the emergence of an intercultural aesthetics / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Envisioning postcolonial Italy : Haile Gerima's Adwa : an African victory and Isaac Julien's Western Union : small boats / Shelleen Greene -- "Roma Forestiera" : a project on migrant music in Rome / Alessandro Portelli -- Hip pop Italian-style : the postcolonial imagination of second generation authors in Italy / Clarissa Clo.