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June 29, 2008
The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America
Immigration Authorization Stamp, Argentina
Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.
June 17, 2008
Forgetting the Past: Ethnic Identity and How Italian and English Fail Us
Wanto Market (Japanese American Market), Oakland, California, 1942
The role of popular memory has a lot to do with how ethnic identities get formed; what would happen if there were words in English or Italian that clarified the history of Italian...
June 1, 2008
Becoming Italian American: POWs and National Identity
Benicia Historical Society
Italian Service Unit, Benicia, California (circa 1944)
Two national holidays, la Festa della Repubblica and Memorial Day, bring up the question of what it means to belong.
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