Raccogli e passa
May 3, 2008
Gepetto (sic), Fairyland, and Oakland’s Lost Italian Americans
City of Oakland
Entrance to Children's Fairyland, Oakland, California
Geppetto's been building Pinocchio for over 40 years in Oakland's Fairyland.
April 28, 2008
A Californian Goes East
Geroge Bates/NY Times
Sanfrooklyn
A look at Oakland's Italian American neighborhood and what it might tell us about Nutley, New Jersey.
April 21, 2008
Italian Farming in the Central Valley
photo by Al and Deanna DeNurra
Baresi Brand (packing label)
Weaving together oral stories from California's Italian American farmers in the Central Valley.
April 12, 2008
A Gramscian Podcast on Women Workers and Migration
photo, Anna Collette
Book cover, "Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S."
Podcasting on Gramsci, immigrant women, labor, and the history of San Diego's cannery workers.
April 10, 2008
Italian Americana, California Style
Laura E. Ruberto
Litto's Hubcap Ranch, Pope Valley (2007)
Driving for hours takes us to three California Italian American vernacular sites -- from urban LA to rural NorCal with a stop along the freeway in the Central Valley.
April 1, 2008
Hillary Clinton, the Italian Stallion
Hillary Clinton adopts the Rocky theme song
Hillary Clinton adopts the Rocky theme song, making her a "sparrin' partner" to Barack Obama.
March 30, 2008
Why I Won’t Vote
Political Poster Supporting Italian Immigrants Right to Vote
Italian citizenship laws put me in the same spot as immigrants in Italy today—both of us without the right to vote; whose vote should really count?
March 14, 2008
What Do Pizza, Mario Merola, and the Camorra Have to Do with Ikea?
Totò Sapore e la Magica Storia della Pizza
Totò Sapore's theme song, sung by Edoardo Bennato
A long-lost relative from Brooklyn finds his way to an Italian kids' movie.
March 8, 2008
Bread and Roses or “Mimose”?
"Per te mondina" (Cgil magazine)
1949 Strike (braccianti and mondine)
Where has over 100 years of honoring women gotten us?
March 4, 2008
Love Costs: Filipinos in Italy and the Movie, "Milan"
"Milan" (Star Cinema)
Poster from "Milan" directed by Olivia M. Lamasan, 2004
What better place than Italy for immigrants to find both a job and a lover?
March 1, 2008
Gramsci, Cinema, Photography and Music
Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome
Listening, watching, and thinking about culture as a political tool.
February 16, 2008
Cinema Piemonte on the Streets of San Francisco
"Riso amaro"
"Riso amaro" is screening in San Francisco soon, leading me to post about one of my favorite films.
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