Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Culture and Place: Italy as a European Country -- The Myth of Backward Italy in Modern Europe -- Italy, Exile Country -- They're Not Children Anymore: The Novelization of "Italians" and "Terrorism" -- "Italy" in Italy: Old Metaphors and New Racisms in the 1990s -- Part II: Impositions, Race, and Colonization -- Italy: Cultural Identity and Spatial Opportunism from a Postcolonial Perspective -- African Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War -- Shades of Black in Advertising and Popular Culture -- Is Aida an Orientalist Opera? -- Part III: Immigrations -- Strangers in Paradise: Foreigners and Shadows in Italian Literature -- The Preclusion of Postcolonial Discourse in Southern Italy -- Anarquistas, Graças a Deus!: "Italy" in South America -- Part IV: Postmodernity and Global Italy -- Venice, Venice, and L.A.: Cultural Repetition and Bodily Difference -- Decolonizing the Screen: From Ladri di biciclette to Ladri di saponette -- If the Japanese Are Samurai, the Italians Are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes -- Spaghetti Eastern: Mutating Mass Culture, Transforming Ethnicity -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.