How Fascism Made Italian Americans Feel Special — Interview with Prof. Stefano Luconi

Historian Prof. Stefano Luconi (University of Padua) explains a complicated story: why many Italian Americans initially felt pride in Mussolini’s Italy; how Catholic identity, community leaders, and the image of an orderly, modern homeland fed that feeling; and why the Ethiopian War, U.S. appeasement debates, WWII, and “enemy alien” policies turned admiration into distance and pain. We end by asking what memories families kept—and what they mean today. ⏰ Timecodes ⏰ 00:00 Intro 01:40 Fascism made them feel special 07:10 White America loved Mussolini 17:07 The role of Catholicism 21:31 The Ethiopian War and appeasement 28:40 WWII changed everything 37:17 A suffering to remember ⚡WATCH MY OTHER VIDEOS!⚡ ITALIAN AMERICANS AND FASCISM - main video:    • Little Italy & Mussolini: From Hype to Hea...   The US and the Roman Republic of 1849:    • 1849: Rome Becomes a Republic — Protestant...   The Italian immigration to Mexico:    • Why Mexico Didn’t Get Millions of Italians   Interview with Professor Marcela Martinez Rodriguez:    • How Mexico’s Italian Colonies Failed — Int...   The Italian Immigration to Chile: interview    • Why Italian Chileans Are So Different from...   Why Southern Italians went to the US and Northeners to Brazil and Argentina:    • Why Southern Italians Went to the U.S. and...   Why Italian migrants always came from the countryside:    • “Why No Italian Americans Come from Rome o...   Can the Italian Diaspora fix the Population Crysis?    • Can the Descendants of Italians Fix Italy’...   The Italian emigration to Brazil:    • The (northern) Italian emigration to Brazil   The Italian emigration to Argentina:    • The Italian Immigration That Transformed A...   The Italian emigration to Canada:    • The Italian immigration to Canada   The Italian Emigration to California:    • The Italian immigration to California   Stay tuned and SUBSCRIBE to the CHANNEL!    / @theitalianreach-2004   My filming and editing setup: WEBCAM: https://amzn.to/4k6oWmw MIC: https://amzn.to/44BMgn7 OUTDOOR MIC: https://amzn.to/43jUv4K MONITOR: https://amzn.to/43jUxcS