This study analyses the essential question of the role of visual and material culture in the construction of a mass racial ideology during the Fascist colonial empire. The hypothesis behind this essay is that representations of the facial features of colonised populations may be understood as agents that transform what are in fact inconsistent and vague notions of identity and race into concrete and effective ontologies, both in the scientific field and in the popular imaginary. The facial casts made by the anthropologist Lidio Cipriani and exhibited in the race pavilion of the very popular Mostra triennale delle Terre italiane d'Oltremare (1940) in Naples, the anthropological photographs and illustrations of the infamous journal La Difesa della razza (1938–43), and the advertising images representing African women's bodies, both gave consistency to the notion of race and incarnated its protean nature made up of narratives, metaphors, fantasies, and prejudices constructed and accumulated over time.

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意大利殖民主义中的黑脸形象：移动本质主义

本研究分析了视觉和物质文化在法西斯殖民帝国时期大众种族意识形态建构中的作用这一基本问题。这篇文章背后的假设是，无论是在科学领域还是在流行的想象中，殖民人口面部特征的表征都可以被理解为将实际上不一致和模糊的身份和种族概念转化为具体有效的本体论的代理人. 由人类学家 Lidio Cipriani 制作并在非常受欢迎的种族馆展出的面部模型Mostra triennale delle Terre italiane d'Oltremare（1940 年）在那不勒斯，臭名昭著的杂志的人类学照片和插图宗教信仰(1938–43)，以及代表非洲女性身体的广告图像，都赋予了种族概念以一致性，并体现了其由叙事、隐喻、幻想和随时间构建和积累的偏见组成的千变万化的本质。