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What Does Feeling Italian Have to do with the Monongah Mine Disaster?

(09 12 2016) Joan L Saverino

Autobiographical account of the intimate connections and disconnections among Italy, West Virginia, coal, and Italianness.

Stereotypes of Death

(11 10 2013) Donna Chirico

An extraordinary circumstance that reveals the myth making is death. It is the clashing cymbals of who we are in the eyes of the world. It is also a time when the cultural...

I Am The Pope

(22 03 2013) Donna Chirico

Enter Francis with an opportunity to identify once again according to religious affiliation and the public has seized this opportunity.

Meet IAWA's Authors and Activists -- Fazio and Belfiglio -- Saturday, August 13

(31 07 2011) IAWA .

On Saturday, August 13, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents two authors whose work reflects both their activism and artistry – internationally...

Obama: Global Leadership, Global Responsibility

(07 12 2008) Piero Bassetti

Barack Obama has mixed the relationship between a political message and the boundaries of the nation in which the message is sent. Has Obama created a global constituency? If so,...

Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”

(18 06 2008) Tom Verso

“What you write on paper is American. What’s in your veins is Italian.”

Forgetting the Past: Ethnic Identity and How Italian and English Fail Us

(17 06 2008) Laura E. Ruberto

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...

Why Vote. Italian Elections Through a half-Italian/American’s Eyes

(05 04 2008) Jerry Krase

Why it is important for Italians in America as well as Italian-Americans to vote in the Italian elections. What Italy can do for them and those who are not even Italian.

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