Cesare Lombroso was one of the Italian intellectuals with the greatest influence on social policies around the world. At the end of the 19th century, Latin America in particular went crazy for his theories: it seemed that the magic formula to defuse racial or class conflicts had been found. Thus, in Brazil, Argentina and Cuba, a veritable cult developed for the category of the 'born criminal', for 'physiognomy', with a very strong influence on the repressive, prison systems as well as on racial relations in these countries. A cultural phenomenon of enormous relevance and so far forgotten, very important today to understand a lot about the origins of racism.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Paolo Mazzarello;
(2019)
L'inferno sulla vetta
(/isis/citation/CBB428414510/)
Article
Rosagemma Ciliberti;
(2023)
Experiences from the past. Comparative research between hospital archive sources and human remains
(/isis/citation/CBB741987012/)
Article
Foschi, Renato;
(2016)
La rappresentazione psico-antropologica dei meridionali tra Ottocento e Novecento
(/isis/citation/CBB415529966/)
Article
Lorenzo Leporiere;
(2023)
Lombrosian Creatures: Literary Devices for an Effective Popularisation of Science
(/isis/citation/CBB180612452/)
Book
Liliosa Azara;
Luca Tedesco;
(2019)
La donna delinquente e la prostituta: L’eredità di Lombroso nella cultura e nella società italiane
(/isis/citation/CBB265080867/)
Chapter
Luca Tedesco;
(2019)
Un parricidio mancato. La ricezione della "Donna delinquente, la prostituta e la donna normale" in Italia tra Otto e Novecento
(/isis/citation/CBB186825209/)
Chapter
Riccardo Cavallo;
(2019)
«Sposa affettuosa, madre sublime e donna delinquente». Socialismo giuridico e criminalità femminile
(/isis/citation/CBB246025070/)
Chapter
Matteo Loconsole;
(2019)
Dalla donna normale alla criminale-nata. La natura femminile nel dialogo tra Paolo Mantegazza e Cesare Lombroso
(/isis/citation/CBB244703956/)
Chapter
Liliosa Azara;
Luca Tedesco;
(2019)
La donna delinquente: teorie lombrosiane e pratiche politico-istituzionali in Italia tra Otto e Novecento
(/isis/citation/CBB305262674/)
Chapter
Mary Gibson;
(2019)
Cesare Lombroso and the Gendered Prison
(/isis/citation/CBB059362876/)
Chapter
Annacarla Valeriano;
(2019)
«Avide dello scandalo». La devianza femminile in manicomio
(/isis/citation/CBB606589982/)
Book
Melissa N. Stein;
(2015)
Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934
(/isis/citation/CBB729336001/)
Book
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt;
(2019)
Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist
(/isis/citation/CBB468285066/)
Book
Reynaud Paligot, Carole;
(2006)
La république raciale: paradigme racial et idéologie républicaine, 1860--1930
(/isis/citation/CBB000772831/)
Chapter
Emilia Musumeci;
(2019)
La donna delinquente tra isteria e infirmitas sexus nell’immaginario giuridico e scientifico ottocentesco
(/isis/citation/CBB323779189/)
Book
Giovanni Cerro;
(2024)
Tra natura e cultura. Degenerazione, eugenetica e razza in Giuseppe Sergi (1841-1936)
(/isis/citation/CBB519658129/)
Article
McMahon, Richard;
(2010)
Networks, Narratives and Territory in Anthropological Race Classification: Towards a More Comprehensive Historical Geography of Europe's Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001035604/)
Article
Silvia Iorio;
(2019)
Voices from the Past Defending Criminal Anthropology
(/isis/citation/CBB894279648/)
Article
Tobias Dahlkvist;
(2015)
The Epileptic Genius: The Use of Dostoevsky as Example in the Medical Debate over the Pathology of Genius
(/isis/citation/CBB238278123/)
Book
Slavet, Eliza;
(2009)
Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
(/isis/citation/CBB001035655/)
Be the first to comment!