John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2017) continues the critical conversation with its predecessor by exploring Italian immigration to the United…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Saladin 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…
In this collection of images, photojournalist Martha Cooper, well-known for her work on graffiti and the early days of hip-hop, documents Italian American vernacular expressive…
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist imperialist enterprise in Africa, addresses the “little black face” that is the anonymous Abyssinian woman,…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
In Global Tarantella (University of Illinois Press, 2017) Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music…
Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations…
On this August episode we’ll discuss Bilingualism in NY, the first bilingual program in Italian in the borough of Manhattan. Our guests are Stefania Puxeddu and…
On this August episode we’ll discuss Bilingualism in NY, the first bilingual program in Italian in the borough of Manhattan. Our guests are Stefania Puxeddu and…
On this August episode we’ll discuss Bilingualism in NY, the first bilingual program in Italian in the borough of Manhattan. Our guests are Stefania Puxeddu and…
On this August episode we’ll discuss Bilingualism in NY, the first bilingual program in Italian in the borough of Manhattan. Our guests are Stefania Puxeddu and…
On this August episode we’ll discuss Bilingualism in NY, the first bilingual program in Italian in the borough of Manhattan. Our guests are Stefania Puxeddu and…