In Italy, some school textbooks reinforce racist stereotypes
Al Jazeera
A book which showed an Italian boy asking a Black girl, ‘Are you Black or are you dirty?’ caused so much backlash that it was removed.
In March, while schools in the southern Campania region were closed as part of another coronavirus lockdown, Xiaomo Ma was working from home when she overheard her nine-year-old son’s online class in the next room. The teacher on screen was reading a story about a Chinese girl in an Italian primary school, from a textbook edited by the Italian publishing house, Del Borgo. “As the teacher kept reading, I felt uncomfortable, for myself and my child,” Ma told Al Jazeera.More Related News