Matthew Vicari

Matthew Vicari is a history major. He will be presenting his senior project, titled Fascism and the Southern Question: Race, Rhetoric, and Reciprocation. This project was inspired by the contradiction of Fascist claims that all Italians belonged to the Aryan race, against the pre-existing narrative of the racial inferiority of Southern Italians. Seeking to better understand the relationship between both Fascism and the Southern Question, and Mussolini and the southerners, the project characterizes these relationships as a mutually shallow glorification.