• Sacco and Vanzetti (2006), 80 min., Peter Miller, dir.

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    NOTE: The film will be screened in partnership with the Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate and will be held in the Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate, 365…

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  • Closing Time: Storia di un Negozio (2006), 30 min., Veronica Diaferia, dir.

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Located at the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets, E. Rossi & Co. was one of the Italian American community’s oldest and most well-known stores…

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  • Kym Ragusa reads from The Skin Between Us

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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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  • 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 10036

    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…

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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 10036

    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…

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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 10036

    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…

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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 10036

    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…

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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 10036

    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…

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