Radical Italian American Christmas Cards

Laura E. Ruberto

Mock-up for a Radical Italian American Christmas Card Set, the "Holiday Modotti"

Thinking about next year’s holiday cards, I turn to the leftist artists, Tina Modotti and Pietro di Donato.

Californians Sell Little Italy, One Crate at a Time

(Label image, P.V.)

Angelina Tokay varietal grape label

Fruit and Vegetable Crate Labels in California and the Italian Americans They Created

Searching for the Ethnic Angle in John Baldessari’s Art

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"Lover's Embrace" (John Baldessari)

On a visit to a retrospective of this California artist, I consider traces of the Italian immigrant background in his work.

Uncredited Extras: Cinecittà’s Refugees and the Italian American Who Filmed Them

Refugees at Cinecitta', Rome, 1944

Jack Salvatori, an almost-forgotten Italian American director, made a film about Cinecittà’s role as a camp for WWII refugees.

Excavating New Futures: The Cairano 7x Experience

Cairano 7x Poster

Cairano 7x

An ambitious week-long event in a small village in the province of Avellino crossed many boundaries and suggested many new possibilities.

La Ruota della Fortuna, Niki de Sainte Phalle's take on an Italian Garden

Laura E. Ruberto

Il Giardino dei Tarocchi

Looking at the undercurrents of Italian migrant identity in Niki de Sainte Phalle’s Giardino dei Tarocchi.

Among Roman Ruins, the Italian Communist Party’s School

Laura E. Ruberto

La Scuola di Frattocchie, The Italian Communist Party's Political School, outside of Rome

Remembering Maria Margotti (1915-1949)

"Per te mondina" (Cgil-funded pamphlet)

Eulogy for Maria Margotti, fallen mondina, May 17, 1949

A rice worker, a partisan, a woman, a mother, Maria Margotti was killed sixty years ago by carabinieri during a strike on May 17, 1949.

The Invisible Victims of the Abruzzo Earthquake

Samuele Pellecchia/Prospekt, for The New York Times

L'Aquila, The Dome of Santa Maria del Suffragio, destroyed by the April 6 earthquake

An unknown number of documented and undocumented immigrants in Abruzzo have died or lost their homes because of the recent earthquake.

Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade

The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.