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2010

February 23, 2010

Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona

Joseph Sciorra
Martha Cooper
Vincenzo Ancona, Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn, 1987.

Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.

February 9, 2010

Found Gangster Poem

Joseph Sciorra

The following lines come from an email sent to i-italy.org editors who, in turn, shared it with me. The words are quoted verbatim and in the order in which they were written, but...

February 3, 2010

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

Joseph Sciorra

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

January 25, 2010

Italianità alternativa

Joseph Sciorra
Joseph Sciorra
John Giorno reciting at the Calandra Institute, October 6, 2009. Co-authored by Rosangela Briscese and Joseph Sciorra.

The Italian-American “experience” is anything but singular.

January 19, 2010

Real Italians

Joseph Sciorra
Joseph Sciorra, circa 1980.

A social scientist’s take on guidos, prominenti, and intellectual inquiry.

January 3, 2010

Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.

Joseph Sciorra

A story about racism in contemporary Italy so absurd it could be true.