International audienceThe Declaration on Race, a text approved by the Great Council of Fascism in October 1938, defines the “Jewish problem” as “the metropolitan aspect of a problem with a general character”. Colonial and anti-Jewish racial policies lie on the same continuum. Showing the complementarity between metropolitan and ultramarine spaces in the sources of the fascist period should retain the attention of the legal historian concerned with the study of institutionalized racism. Indeed, when the government adopts the first measures affecting “persons belonging to the Jewish race”, the Italian legal arsenal on racial matters is already well equipped. Categories, legislative techniques and uses of the concept of “race” have already bee...