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Carol 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…
Kym Ragusa’s memoir is situated at the crossroads of two Harlem communities during the 1970s, the West Harlem of her African American mother and the…
This video features the Brooklyn neighborhood known historically as South Brooklyn and more recently as Carroll Gardens, an area distinguished by its simple brownstones and…
Fred 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…
Christmas season in New York City’s outer boroughs is a time when homeowners transform the mundane into a nocturnal tapestry of festive landscape by decorating…
Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane…
Robert 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…
The poems in Low Italian (Bordighera) explore the drama, the comedy and the tragedy of Italian American consciousness. From “I’m Through Being Italian” to “Zen…
Hermann 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…
The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Mark Binelli’s debut novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists sentenced to death…
Four authors read from this collection of Italian-American autobiographical works edited by Lee Gutkind and Joanna Clapps Herman. This anthology consists of twenty-one original essays…
Maria C. Lizzi, University of Albany, SUNY Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed,…