Inventing Little Italy
Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota) Most settlements of Italians around the world were not called “Little Italy.” The phrase seems to have been invented in…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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‘George the Queer Danced the Hula’: Narrating Race and Sexuality in a WWII Soldier’s Memoir
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Carol Stabile (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) In April 1941, the United States army drafted Michael Stabile of Nutley, New Jersey, one of thirteen children born to…
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From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Fred Gardaphé (Stony Brook University) Since the gangster’s earliest appearance in American cinema, there has been regular association between the gangster figure and the Italian/American…
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane…
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Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Robert Casillo, University of Miami Widely acclaimed as America’s greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian-American artist. His most…
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Between Naples and New York: Italian Immigrant Speech in Eduardo “Farfariello” Migliaccio’s Macchiette
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Hermann W. Haller, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Eduardo Migliaccio (1882-1946), known as Farfariello, was widely considered one of…
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My Heart Is as Black as Yours: White Backlash and Italian-American Stereotypes in New York City’s 1969 Mayoral Campaign
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Maria C. Lizzi, University of Albany, SUNY Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed,…
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Seeing Immigrant Growth Machines in Little Italies and Chinatowns
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Tarry Hum, Queens College, and Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College This collaborative presentation emphasizes a political economic approach to ethnic enclaves and argues that the role…
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Italian Vernacular Healing and the Enchanted Worldview
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Sabina Magliocco, California State University-Northridge When Italians came to North America, they brought with them a panoply of vernacular healing traditions, from herbal cures to…
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The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian-American Immigrant Autobiographies
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University “Immigrants left behind sweat and tears, but no memories,” wrote the Italian scholar Giuseppe Prezzolini, in his search for first-person…
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Diversity’s Blind Spot: Catholic Ethnics on the Faculties of Elite American Universities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Richard Alba, State University of New York-Albany In the United States, Italian Americans and other European groups from predominantly Catholic backgrounds provide a critical test…
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Education as if Citizenship Mattered: Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Johanek and John Puckett, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Covello, Benjamin Franklin High School’s founding principal (1934-1956), along with his professional allies Vito Marcantonio, Fiorello…
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