ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the changes in colonial policy that brought to the prohibition of mixture during the Italian colonization of Libya in the specific case study of the city of Benghazi. The analysis of policy changes in the regulation of mixed intimacies is nuanced by a thorough study of the social landscape evolution in the city between the 1920s and 1930s. Specifically, the chapter looks at how the increase in settler population in the city, particularly of Italian women, brought a restructuring of the colonial boundaries in the city that had material impacts on the lives of mixed couples and the spatial organization of the city.
