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Journalists Paula Butturini and John Tagliabue met in Italy in 1985 and four years later married in Rome. Less than a month after the wedding,…
Robert Garot, John Jay College In a world marked by increasing migration and globalization, the political and social rights of citizenship may not always be…
In the early twentieth century, members of the Merenda family emigrated to the United States from Paterno Calabro (Cosenza Province), Calabria. Over the decades, the…
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Metropolitan Museum of Art For more than a century, Italian Americans in and around New York City have produced a great variety…
In the late 1970s, Sri Lankan immigrants began coming to Naples, often to find employment as domestic workers. The community is now large and well-established,…
“I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century.” With that, Joanna Clapps Herman concisely describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing…
William Mello, Indiana University In the post-World War II era, dockworkers in New York fought an ongoing battle against shipping companies, local police, federal and…
Exhibition opening Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6 pm Roundtable discussion Monday, May 9, 2011, 6 pm On view April 12-June 10, 2011…
Following the death of her sister Teresa in 1938, Anna La Camera left Paradiso, a hamlet of Milazzo (Messina province), Sicily, and set sail on…
The bestselling poet in modern literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has also been a catalyst for numerous literary careers and an influential counterculture figure. In 1953, he…
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film In the second half of the twentieth century, food, fashion, and film became…
Michael Perino, St. John’s University In the winter of 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression, Ferdinand Pecora took control of a bumbling United States…