Raccogli e passa
September 6, 2017
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Book cover with a photograph of the Valentini family boarding an airplane in Italy for New York City, March 25, 1963.
Reimagining the last seventy years of Italian migration.
September 14, 2016
Post-World War II Italian Immigrants in Cinema
Wild is the Wind, directed by George Cukor
Film poster, 1957
An evolving list of U.S.- and Italian- produced films featuring Italian immigrants to the United States from 1945 to the present.
March 25, 2016
Translating Italian Women Writers in the Age of Elena Ferrante
Gianna Manzini, Rome, 1960
Presenting the first English-language translation of Gianna Manzini’s "Sulla soglia"—"Threshold"
December 16, 2015
Christmas eCards - of a Radical Italian American Kind
Laura E. Ruberto
Imagining, creating and sharing alternative Italian American Christmas eCards
July 20, 2014
The Watts Towers in Southern Italy: Connecting California with Irpinia
Laura E. Ruberto
hands of Angelo Filarmonio, holding a photo of himself, Amoroso Raimondo and Cirino Filippo at the Watts Towers, 1984
Looking for the future of Sabato Rodia’s Watts Towers in the small town of Serino, in the province of Avellino.
March 13, 2014
Mobsters in Sin City
The Las Vegas Mob Museum doesn’t know what to do with all those Italian American gangsters everyone loves to talk about so much.
December 21, 2013
The Spectacle of the Nativity in Valenti Angelo’s Art
Valenti Angelo
Valenti Angelo's The Bells of Bleecker Street, 1949
The children’s book author and illustrator Valenti Angelo highlights Italian American Christmas Celebrations in his works.
November 18, 2013
Revisiting Southern Italy through the Lens of a Future Anthropologist
Frank Cancian
"Lacedonia: Un paese Italiano, 1957/An Italian Town, 1957," photos by Frank Cancian (Delta 3, 2013)
Introducing "Lacedonia: Un paese Italiano, 1957/An Italian Town, 1957," Frank Cancian’s photographs of Lacedonia (AV), repackaged for a new century.
October 22, 2013
“The Mediterranean Came to Flavor My Existence”: Harry Bertoia’s Midcentury Italian American Aesthetic
Cornell University Museum
Harry Bertoia, “Diamond” chair for Knoll Associates, originally produced in 1952 (this example manufactured in the 1970s).
Reflections on how Italy shaped (or didn’t) the midcentury modern design of artist Harry Bertoia.
July 30, 2013
Italian American Monuments, Gramsci-style
Laura E. Ruberto
Inside the Archive room of the Gramsci Monument, Forest Houses, Bronx, New York City
Upon visiting Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument in the Bronx, passing reflections on impermanence, aesthetics, and what makes something Italian American.
March 20, 2013
Italian American Victrola-Spinning
Laura E. Ruberto
Italian American Music Store Labels, Found on 78s and Their Sleeves
From a Massachusetts living room to a California garage—collecting and preserving Italian American soundscapes.
January 9, 2013
An Italian Topography within a California Cemetery
Laura E. Ruberto
Italian immigrants' tombstone, Mountain View Cemetery and Gardens, Oakland, California
On the ethnicity of tombstones.
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