Recent Posts
January 16, 2008
Giuliani's Italian American Voting Bloc?
Why Rudy Giuliani can't rely on co-ethnicity to win. The limits of Machine Politics when it comes to Italian Americans as a potential voting bloc.
January 15, 2008
Against Rudy Giuliani the Strategy Is to Divide Italian-Americans
Rudy Giuliani
In Italy, amid political turmoil that is absorbing public opinion, people are hardly aware that America is preparing for a new presidential election. This realization is...
January 14, 2008
La Signora and The Soprano
Opera duet in Annie Lanzillotto's "a'Schapett!" at The Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx.
January 13, 2008
Child Slavery in Sicily 1910
Sulphur mine carusi
“The cruelties to which the child slaves of Sicily have been subjected are as bad as anything reported of the cruelties of Negro slavery.” Booker Taliaferro Washington:...
January 12, 2008
Emile de Antonio's documentaries and radical art
The documentary films of Emile de Antonio, another chapter in Italian American radicalism.
January 12, 2008
Hillary's Tears & Caucasian Lacrimation
Annie Lanzillotto
The role of race privilege in acts of public crying.
January 10, 2008
Understanding Italian Politics: A Pause for Reflection
We are told, by no less a voice than the New York Times (which, like most American papers, has trouble focussing on Italy if popes, earthquakes, or the Mafia are not involved),...
January 8, 2008
Two Visions of the Real Italy: Rich and Unhappy or Poor But Happy?
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My highly contested argument was that Italians are rich yet discontent. The other side contended that, to the contrary, Italians are poor but very happy...
