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Italian Signs, American Politics: Current Affairs, Historical Perspectives, Empirical Analyses. Ottorino Cappelli, editor. This book analyses intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of…
Domenica Ruta’s With or Without You is a lyrical memoir about a chaotic childhood in a working-class town, the power—and sometimes stranglehold—of a mother-daughter relationship,…
The aim of this conference is to expand the range of investigations into the complex material and economic relationship between the United States and Italy…
In the early twentieth century, U.S. recording companies began producing records of music from the traditions of various recent immigrant groups. These recordings included folk…
This panel will discuss both the history and current state of Italian emigration as seen from both the Italian and Italian-American Perspective. Panelists include: Dott.…
From “cosa nostra” to “cosa grigia”! This book analyzes the ever growing influence that organized crime continues to have on Italian society. Author Giacomo Di…
All This Talk of Love, the third novel in Christopher Castellani’s series about the Grasso family, is a moving and engaging depiction of family history…
Book Presentation: Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009. By Alfredo de Palchi. Translated from the original Italian by Barbarba Carle, Michael Palma, Sonia Raiziss, John…
An observational documentary, comparse deals with cinema, migration, fiction, and reality. It focuses on African immigrants living in Sicily who are brought to the island…
Folklorist Jocelyn Arem will speak about the life and legacy of Lena Spencer, the co-founder of Caffè Lena, the oldest surviving folk-music coffeehouse in the United States.…
Looking at the Italian-American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives…
Film Screening & Book Launch This presentation features Maria Mazziotti Gillan reading from her latest collection of poetry, Ancestor’s Song, and a screening of Kevin…