Table of Contents
Table of Contents
To the Reader
Introduction – Framework of Reference and Research Method
Chapter 1. Ethnocentrism, Racism, Anti-Semitism
Chapter 2. Master and Slave Races
Chapter 3. The Aryan and the Semite
Chapter 4. Armenians in Italy in the Early 1900’s
Chapter 5. Armenians – Semites
Chapter 6. On the Presumed “Semite” Characteristics of the Armenians
Chapter 7. Armenians – Aryans
Final Remarks
Index
The book is above all addressed to the scholars of racism, anti-Semitism and their cultural matrixes, to the scholars of fascism and Nazism, of Armenian history and culture, especially of the 20th century and to all those who have an interest on these topics although they may not have a specialized knowledge on such matters.
“In outlining the Armenian situation in Italy in the 1930s, the book closely examines the origins, shortcomings and contradictions of the so-called Aryan race and culture, which lay at the root of Nazi and fascist racism and its strategy of discrimination and human rights denial.” – Professor Francisco Javier Ansuátegui Roig, Head of Human Rights Institute Bartolomé de las Casas, Carlos III University of Madrid
“This splendid book investigates the ambivalent attitude in Italy towards Armenians in the 1930s and thereby makes an important contribution to the historical study of racism.” – David McLellan Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Kent. Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London
“Armenians-Aryans is in many ways the litmus test with which Ferri brings to light and denounces the pseudo-rational and pseudo-sciences underlying all forms of racism, outlining at the same time the framework of fundamental and constitutive values of a world that is truly human.” – F. Grigoris Serenian of the Mechitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro in Venice
“Enrico Ferri’s book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the impact of the race laws that were passed in Europe between the two world wars: the classification of the Armenian communities among the Semite or Aryan races, reconsidering from an unusual angle the theme, which continues to be neglected, of ethnocentrism, of racism and, more in general, of the marginalisation of the other.” – Professor Marco Cossutta, University of Trieste
“By examining racism and the race laws that also involved Armenians in Italy and Europe, the author shows how a misrepresentation of man and history can have devastating consequences if sustained by mass fanaticism.” – <strong>Agop Manoukian, Honorary President, Union of Italian Armenians
