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In 1991, Professor Donald Tricarico, a sociologist at Queensboro Community College, CUNY, published his essay “Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style” in The Journal of…
As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig, an American Jew of Italian and German descent, had the exceptional opportunity to spend his summer vacations…
Third-generation Italian Americans Angie and Tara Pontani and “adopted sister” Helen Burkett began dancing together professionally during the late 1990s. As The World Famous Pontani…
Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology .The Italian “diva film” of the silent era provided a forum for denouncing social evils and exploring new…
Merica investigates the complexities of migration and the migrant’s desire for national belonging using the parallel stories of Italian immigration to Brazil in the 1800s…
Mike Cavallaro’s comic is based on a family story that takes place during the Feast of the Epiphany in 1923 Calabria. Tensions are high between…
First published in 1935, The Grand Gennaro is considered a cornerstone of early Italian-American fiction. It now appears newly edited and with an introduction by…
Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Yiorgos Kalogeras will discuss how Elia Kazan’s America-America (1963) serves as an archetype for two recent films dealing with…
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference is dedicated to the theme of cultural landscapes. The conference addresses issues concerning placemaking in…
In the years following World War II, the city of Trieste was under the control of the Anglo-American Allied Military Government as both the Italian…
These two films look at post-World War II Italian immigration to Montreal and the ways in which it is remembered. Ho fatto il mio coraggio…
Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force in the New York art scene and an originator of what has…