Race, statistics and Italian eugenics : Alfredo Niceforo's trajectory from Lombroso to fascism (1876-1960)
This article traces the development of Italian eugenics and scientific racism from their origins in nineteenth-century positivist anthropology to the 1938 Manifesto of racial scientists. The author follows the biographical trajectory of the Sicilian racial thinker Alfredo Niceforo (1876-1960), the last member of Cesare Lombroso's positivist school, a founding father of Italian eugenics and a prominent ...