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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,…
Special Guest Presentation Lara Pascali, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Museum A number of Italians in North America have two kitchens in their homes; one…
Tarry Hum, Queens College, and Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College This collaborative presentation emphasizes a political economic approach to ethnic enclaves and argues that the role…
“A love song to the wounded world” is how Maria Mazziotti Gillan described Maria Terrone’s first book of poetry, The Bodies We Were Loaned. Terrone’s…
Fred Misurella’s Lies to Live By (Bordighera, 2005) dissects contemporary America by focusing on Italian Americans from various walks of life, especially as they relate…
A symposium presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. This seminar, with accompanying music and video, explores the social changes occurring in contemporary…
“I Build the Tower” is the story of the life and work of Sabato “Sam” Rodia, the Italian immigrant who designed and single-handily built in…
Sabina Magliocco, California State University-Northridge When Italians came to North America, they brought with them a panoply of vernacular healing traditions, from herbal cures to…
How does a film about Catholic clergy abuse not descend into depression? It helps when the victim doesn’t act like one but uses his own…
Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University “Immigrants left behind sweat and tears, but no memories,” wrote the Italian scholar Giuseppe Prezzolini, in his search for first-person…
Incomodo. Goffo. Brutto. Spiacevole. Mary Cappello’s immigrant grandfather traced these Italian words in the letters he wrote to her but never sent, words that speak…