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Richard Alba, State University of New York-Albany In the United States, Italian Americans and other European groups from predominantly Catholic backgrounds provide a critical test…
After living together for seven years in New York City, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco decide to get married. But unlike many other gay couples…
Vittoria Repetto’s precise, compact, and colloquial cadences in the poems of Not Just A Personal Ad (Guernica Editions, 2006) assemble the reality of growing up…
Michael Johanek and John Puckett, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Covello, Benjamin Franklin High School’s founding principal (1934-1956), along with his professional allies Vito Marcantonio, Fiorello…
Nine Good Teeth unfolds through the stories of 103-year-old Brooklyn-born, Sicilian-American Mary Mirabito. In an intimate and often hilarious portrait, the fiercely independent and outspoken…
Joan Saverino, Historical Society of Pennsylvania On December 6, 1907, the worst mine disaster in American history occurred in Monongah, West Virginia. About fifty percent of…
Anne Marie Macari’s breath-taking second collection finds unapologetic revelation in the female body. Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005) re-examines motherhood, death, birth, and rebirth, drawing…
At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian immigrants found jobs in the coalmines in the rural town of Toluca, Illinois. On Sundays afternoons, the…
Emanuel di Pasquale’s Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems (Bordighera, 2007) spans forty years of his work. Di Pasquale poetry is connected to his Sicilian…
Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College Revisited from a feminist perspective, the work of Italian cultural theorist Antonio Gramsci offers insights into the relationship between…
Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed, “My heart is as black as yours.”…
Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY Italian intellectuals Giuseppe Giacosa, Emilio Cecchi, Mario Soldati, Italo Calvino, and Furio Colombo traveling to the United States in…