Kym Ragusa reads from The Skin Between Us
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…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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The Italian Gardens of South Brooklyn (1990), 25 min., Alexandra Corbin and Susan Morosoli, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This video features the Brooklyn neighborhood known historically as South Brooklyn and more recently as Carroll Gardens, an area distinguished by its simple brownstones and…
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From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Fred 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…
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Dyker Lights (2001), 28 min., Paul Reitano and Terrence Sacchi, dir.
The Kings of Christmas (2005), 11 min., David Katz, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Christmas 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…
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Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane…
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Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Robert 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…
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George Guida reads from Low Italian: Poems
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 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…
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Between Naples and New York: Italian Immigrant Speech in Eduardo “Farfariello” Migliaccio’s Macchiette
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Hermann 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…
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Mark Binelli reads from his novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 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…
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Joanna Clapps Herman, Edvige Giunta, Maria Laurino, and Annie Lanzillotto read from Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Four 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…
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My Heart Is as Black as Yours: White Backlash and Italian-American Stereotypes in New York City’s 1969 Mayoral Campaign
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Maria C. Lizzi, University of Albany, SUNY Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed,…
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Una casa, due cucine: The Italian Immigrant Home with Two Kitchens in North America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Lara Pascali, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Museum A number of Italians in North America have two kitchens in their homes; one…
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