Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians, by Paul Moses, Brooklyn College, CUNY
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Starting in the nineteenth century, Irish Americans and Italian Americans found themselves at odds: in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and…
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Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, by Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington
From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. In Immigrants…
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The Heart and the Island: A Critical Study of Sicilian American Literature
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Chiara Mazzucchelli, University of Central FloridaIn The Heart and the Island (SUNY Press, 2015), Chiara Mazzucchelli explores the bond between Sicilian American writers and the island of Sicily. Throughout the…
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New York’s Italian Exile Press and the Civil War
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Bénédicte Deschamps, Paris Diderot UniversityThe events of Risorgimento Italy provoked political migrations. In the United States, Risorgimento exiles played an essential part in the birth of the Italian American…
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Italian Mobilities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University
Stephanie Malia Hom, Acus FoundationThe Italian nation-state has been defined in part by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed into the country from the Grand Tour era to the…
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American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism, Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Saladin Ambar’s American Cicero (Oxford University Press, 2017) traces Mario Cuomo’s rise through the rough-and-tumble world of New York City politics to become its liberal champion. A…
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Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Elizabeth Zanoni, Old Dominion University Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home: Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive…
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Italian American Women, Food, and Identity: Stories at the Table
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Andrea L. Dottolo, Rhode Island College Carol Dottolo, retired educator, Liverpool Central School District, New York In the narratives collected in Italian American Women, Food,…
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Searching for Subversives: The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, Harvard Law School When the United States entered World War II, it subjected Italian nationals living within its borders to legal…
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Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Fraser M. Ottanelli University of South Florida The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the popular European imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned…
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Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Danielle Battisti University of Nebraska–Omaha In Whom We Shall Welcome (Fordham University Press, 2019), Danielle Battisti examines post–World War II immigration by Italians to the…
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