The Godfather’s Silences
Christian Messenger Chris Messenger is the author of The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002) and Professor of English at…
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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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Anthony Giardina reads from Recent History
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“Graceful … manages to handle an enormous amount of emotional material with a light touch…. struggle is urgent and real. Giardina makes us care, in…
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At the Crossroads: Italian Women, Race, and Urban Politics in New York City, 1930-1950
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jennifer Gugliemo, William Paterson University In the post-World War II period, Italians in New York came to signify the quintessential blue-collar white ethnic conservative, as…
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Sacred Emblems, Community Signs: Historic Flags and Religious Banners from Italian Williamsburg, Brooklyn
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036An exhibition presented by The John D. Calandra Italian American Insitute Queens College/CUNY and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University February 6-March 14, 2003 Casa…
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Bronx Miracle: Joseph Vitolo, Jr., Our Lady of the Universe, and Roman Catholic Devotion
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame History professor John McGreevy of the University of Notre Dame will speak on the experience of Joseph Vitolo,…
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Clothesline (1981), Roberta Cantow, dir.
Poetry Reading co-sponsored with Mal�a: A Collective of Italian American WomenJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Free -
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power, 1890-1945
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and…
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Reversible Destinies: Mafia, Anti-Mafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York NY 10016Panel discussion with authors Jane and Peter Schneider, Alessandro Stille, Fred Gardaphe. Moderator: Philip Cannistraro Location: CUNY Graduate Center The President’s Conference Room, Room 8201.01…
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Louisa Ermelino reads from The Black Madonna and The Sisters Mallone: Una Storia di Famiglia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“An endearing portrayal of working-class Italian-American women, their sons, their families, their lives, their loves, and their dreams in New York’s Little Italy. Ermelino writes…
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Buona Vendetta Social Club: Calabrian ‘Malavita’ Songs and the Media.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle Calabrian “malavita” songs represent a long musical tradition that is distributed regionally vis-à-vis cassette recordings. Recently, this local music has…
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The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison. Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs…
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Italian Americans and Early Rock and Roll
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the late 1950s, young Italian American men from New York City and the surrounding areas emerged on the burgeoning rock and roll scene. Groups…
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