Joan Saverino, Historical Society of Pennsylvania On December 6, 1907, the worst mine disaster in American history occurred in Monongah, West Virginia. About fifty percent of…

Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College Revisited from a feminist perspective, the work of Italian cultural theorist Antonio Gramsci offers insights into the relationship between…

Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed, “My heart is as black as yours.”…

Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY Italian intellectuals Giuseppe Giacosa, Emilio Cecchi, Mario Soldati, Italo Calvino, and Furio Colombo traveling to the United States in…

Denise Scannell, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Tampa’s Italian Americans express a counter-discourse disputing the discourse of assimilation in which Italian-American ethnic identity…

Vera Dika, New Jersey City University The image of Italian-American women has changed over the course of film history. In American film, this female character…

Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, and Joseph Russo, Haverford College The true treasures of European folklore are buried not in Germany, but in Sicily, and…

Grace Russo Bullaro (Lehman College) In films of the New Italian Cinema such as Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), and Ciao, Professore! (1992), the…

Dorothy Louise Zinn (Università degli Studi della Basilicata) Ernesto De Martino (1908-1965) is widely acknowledged to be a founding figure of cultural anthropology in Italy,…

Mario B. Mignone (Stony Brook University) Based on his book Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2007), Mario Mignone will…

Mark Choate, Brigham Young University Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world…

Tom Smith After a sensational trial, eleven Italian Americans acquitted in the murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy were killed in the largest…