Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of The Black Mediterranean.

Hawthorne embraces a scholarly commitment to clarity and a citation ethic rooted in careful engagement with works inside and outside the academy.(American Sociological Association) One of the first full-length books meticulously grappling with questions related to Black politics in Italy, Camilla Hawthorne's Contesting Race and Citizenship constitutes not simply another timely contribution to identifying and theorizing «Black Italia», but it also illuminates novel radical possibilities to explore the conceptual boundaries of Blackness in the Italian context.(Altreitalie)

Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of The Black Mediterranean.

Hawthorne embraces a scholarly commitment to clarity and a citation ethic rooted in careful engagement with works inside and outside the academy.(American Sociological Association) One of the first full-length books meticulously grappling with questions related to Black politics in Italy, Camilla Hawthorne's Contesting Race and Citizenship constitutes not simply another timely contribution to identifying and theorizing «Black Italia», but it also illuminates novel radical possibilities to explore the conceptual boundaries of Blackness in the Italian context.(Altreitalie)

Camilla Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor of The Black Mediterranean.

Hawthorne embraces a scholarly commitment to clarity and a citation ethic rooted in careful engagement with works inside and outside the academy.(American Sociological Association) One of the first full-length books meticulously grappling with questions related to Black politics in Italy, Camilla Hawthorne's Contesting Race and Citizenship constitutes not simply another timely contribution to identifying and theorizing «Black Italia», but it also illuminates novel radical possibilities to explore the conceptual boundaries of Blackness in the Italian context.(Altreitalie)