In particular the talk introduces the use of social media have made anti-racist organizing more globalized and connected than ever, and this activism in Italy and The role of Generation Z whose experiences differ from those of other generations in other countries where access to the mainstream was difficult at the outset. The advent of the internet has provided this generation with a powerful ally in its membership of a grouping which has revolutionized Italian music, art and culture due to the bypassing of traditional media sources.
Netflix will release in 2021 “Zero” which will mark the first Italian series centered around the present-day of Black Italian youth and based on a novel by the Black Italian young writer Antonio Dikele Distefano who in 2015 published “Fuori Piove” a novel that had a great success. Fashion Stylist Stella Jean in 2020 demand more diversity in the Italian fashion industry, Ghali is a rapper -producer and he sold more the .16 million of copies in Italy. He both Antonio Dikele Distefano used social media strategy before entering in the mainstream of the Italian culture. An entire generation of Black Italians, in particular artists, entrepreneurs, bloggers (especially Millennials), have been affirming themselves in Italian culture and society, gaining progressively more visibility starting in the 1990s, thus entering the spotlight of the Global Black Diaspora. When teaching this course, we asked questions such as: Which themes/issues/topics are most discussed among Black Italians? Which art forms do they cite and refer to? In which ways and through which channels do Black Italians engage with the Global Black Diaspora? How is this generation seeking to be included in the history and socio-economic system of a country that still refuses citizenship to children born on the Italian soil? What kind of cultural and artistic production has been emerging from “the new Italians”?
