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(09 02 2010) Fred Gardaphe

If you believe that the “Jersey Shore” show of MTV is really gangsters without guns, then you should do something about it. But since when have we become afraid of our youth?...

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

(03 02 2010) Joseph Sciorra

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

The Situation

(20 01 2010) Robert Viscusi

'Guido' is a phenomenon that demands attention. If Italian American social advance were as real, as secure, and as substantial as many Italian Americans believe it to be (I am...

Real Italians

(19 01 2010) Joseph Sciorra

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

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

(29 11 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

Between Black and White. The First Columbus Day of the Obama Era.

(05 10 2009) Ottorino Cappelli

Musings on the symbolic coincidence of the first "Italian month" under an African American president—and what we could make of it.

Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment

(18 01 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.

Obamania or Obamaphobia: Italians in a Post-Bush America

(12 11 2008) Jerry Krase

Italian American intellectuals and Italians in Italy might have given great support to Barack Obama's historic Presidential triumph but Italian American voters, at least those in...

Racism/Razzismo Part II: Yusuf Hawkins and the Closing of the American Mind

(09 10 2008) Jerry Krase

This was the first of two articles I wrote in The Brooklyn Free Press shortly after Yusuf Hawkins' murder in the summer of 1989. Although it concerns his brutal slaying by a...

No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings

(06 07 2008) Stephanie Longo

Take love of community, ethnic pride, and add a dash of Dean Martin and you have Scranton’s own Jack DeLeo.

Whites on a Leash: Italian Americans and White Privilege in the U.S.

(24 06 2008) Fred Gardaphe

If not totally black, Italians have certainly complicated the notion of whiteness in America so that they are neither totally white, and it is this in-between status, that makes...

Guys Named Rocco

(22 06 2008) Stephanie Longo

Why do we accept the unacceptable?

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