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The Italian Election: American Voters and “The Southern Question”
Child Slavery in Sicily 1910
The death of the Italian language in America
“2013 Year of (north) Italian Culture in the United States”... Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony foisted on American Terroni
Cultural Demise: South of Rome and American Terroni – Piedmontista Then and Now (Silvana Patriarca, Nelson Moe, Italian Studies)
Global Warming - “Fall of Man” and Birth of Mediterranean (Primordial Southern Italian) Culture
Science, Irony and Italian History - a “Southern Question” twist!
“Bitter Rice”, “The Earth Trembles” and “The Italian/American State of Mind”(culture)
“Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Education, Employment and Italian American culture.”
Does the Italian American Writers Association celebrate ANY writer with an Italian last name e.g. Kristine Gasbarre?
‘A Precious Patch of Dirt’ - Southern Italians in Mississippi and Rochester, NY
Southern Italy – The Chrysalis of Western Civilization ... Diocletian’s Palace Colonnade
Antiquated Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era
Italian American Dual Citizenship and Voting Rights - "Forget about it"
Southern Italy Patriarchal Family: The evidence and critique of Gabriella Gribaudi’s counter argument
From “Godfather to “Mama’s Boys” – The ever degenerating southern-Italian American media image. So who cares?
Southern-Italian American ‘Education Attainment’ – Census Numbers ... “Read ‘em ‘n Weep”...Guidos Galore
Italian Americans by the Numbers – Comparative ethnic population totals and percentages
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – Review Part II: “...the good interred with their bones...”
Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)
1989 Venice Palazzo Grassi Art Exhibition: “Italian Art 1900-1945” -“Northern Italian?”... “But, of course – need you ask?”
“Trinacria” – At Long Last! … A Southern-Italian American (Pre-Ellis Island) Historic Novel … and High-Brow Literature ‘To Boot’
“Mount Allegro” revisited in terms of Gribaudi and Dickie’s historiography
Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini
Fighting the “Better Fight”
Joseph F. Privitera: Creative Sicilian Language Teacher...Towards a Southern-Italian American Curriculum
Sinatra – the dialogue with Joey Skee continues
American Terroni – 3,000 year Lost History of “Patria Meridionale”
“Extra Virginity – The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil” … Implications for Southern-Italian American Cultural History
The Vatican, American Nuns and southern-Italian Americana
Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland
Italian-American Intellectuals … Immigrant Working-Class Revolutionaries vs. Bourgeois Progeny …What Difference a War Makes!
“Terroni” and “Polentoni” – Revisited … The Culturally Lobotomized Southern-Italian Americana
John Domini’s “A Tomb on the Periphery” – Sooo Not Saviano or SUNY Stony Brook!
Mafia Studies: Subjective “Representations” vs. Objective “Realities”
The Church (re)Turns Right... San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone...Southern-Italian Americana Implications
Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus
Tuscan ‘lingua franca’ Dialect vs. southern-Italian ‘indigenous’ Languages
When ‘Military Wars’ end … then ‘Culture Wars’ begin
Before Fresco...Mosaic ("True Painting for Eternity") – Sicilian Majesty: Cefalu, Cappella Palatina, Monreale
So … What Happened to Little Italy? … Why did the Italians Leave? --- Part I: “The Urban Villagers”
The Mussolini Contradiction - Boston’s North End “Street Corner Society”
Italian Women in fiction: from “La Scapigliatura” to Lisa Scottoline...“You’ve come a long way baby!”
Camille Paglia: A Crown Jewel of Italian Americana Languishes in the Shadow of the Sopranos
Step Aside Homer! "The Authoress of the Odyssey” is a Sicilian Girl from Trapani
Robert M. Lombardo’s book: “Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond Mafia” … Or, in short, “Chicago = America”
Palermo: Ancient Rivers and Modern Streets
Southern-Italian Americans and the 99% vs. 1% American Class Dichotomy
Towards an Italian American Curriculum - Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” is a pedagogical gold mine.
Frank Lentricchia follows DeLillo back to Little Italy Home – but not Domini to Southern Italy Homeland
Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel II … With Heroes Like These Who Needs Enemies? ... ‘Court Historians’ and Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”
Bob Giraldi’s movie “Dinner Rush”: The future (if any) of Italian American culture
Baldessari’s art vs. Italian American reality - Ruberto and Gardarphe: “Postmodern Musings”
Hannibal Winters his army in Southern-Italian city Capua – Implications for the Obese American Military confronting Iran
Tina Modotti – “Some Kind of Lady!”
Exploring American Southern-Italianitá (fa bella figura) – 1950s Street Corner Doo-wop singers.
Michael Parenti and Camille Paglia: The Ivy League vs. Southern-Italian American Culture
“Clash of Western and Islamic Civilizations” 2012 A.D. began circa 800 B.C. in Sicily
“The Sea-God’s Herb - Essays & Criticism 1975-2014” … A Song of Post-Modernism
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – A Review: Part I ‘Gentlemen’s History’ vs. ‘People’s History’
Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”
Prostitutes and Lemon Trees: John Dickie’s ‘New Mafia Historiography’ Fails Without Social Science –The Class Character of Crime
Terroni-ism in Sicily Today
“Vendetta Mountain” by C. A. Fiore ... A ‘Low-Brow’ Symptom of ‘Culture War’ Waged Against Southern-Italian Americans
To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??
Hannibal and Mussolini - “The South will rise again!”
Palermo - Ancient Walls and Modern Streets
Camille Paglia & Tom Wolfe … Two Approaches to Modern Art
Italian American Culture: Illusion or Reality?
“Chickens come home to roost” – Italian Studies suffers consequences for aversion to Patria Meridionale.
Sicilian Founders of Rome (revisited...again) – The Logic of Historiography (wonkish: hate philosophy?...forget-about-it!)
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