La formazione di una coscienza imperiale, razzista e antisemita. Manuali pedagogico-didattici e saggi ideologici pubblicati a Brescia (1940-1944)

The article analyzes four publications printed in Brescia between 1940 and 1944: two educational textbooks for perspective teachers in preparation for national public competition (published by Editrice La Scuola) and two ideological essays (Editrice Vannini). While trying to shape a “racial and imperial conscience” and spreading a xenophobic and anti-Semitic ideology, the authors of these publications contributed to create the cultural milieu for the approval and the implementation of racial legislation in Italy.