South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
June 13, 2009
Camille Paglia’s Androgyny Aesthetics - Why Italian Americans love the Sopranos
Androgynous Female
“Bourgeois English department feminist promoting cancellation of male concentration and projection cut no ice at the corner garage…on the streets…” - or with Soprano fans..
May 27, 2009
Towards an Italian American Curriculum - Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” is a pedagogical gold mine.
Visconti’s magnificent film of Lampedusa’s magnificent novel – one Italian artist complements another.
With only 9% of Italian Americans over 18 in college and 70% have an education level of less than a bachelor’s degree, the time is long overdue to consider curriculum changes to...
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Camille Paglia: A Crown Jewel of Italian Americana Languishes in the Shadow of the Sopranos
Camille Paglia and Mimi Gonzales
An Italian American tragedy - a ‘low-brow’ culture that can’t read Paglia because of low education levels. She doesn’t write books for the beach.
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Why They Came – Italy’s Shame
“26 million Italians – the largest migration in recorded history”
Americans of Italian decent should demand that Italy apologize for the dehumanization and exploitation of our grandparents and build memorials of contrition and appreciation to...
April 23, 2009
To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??
"Italian Child", Letizia Battaglia
Italian Americans are generally not highly educated, and they are especially lacking in education about their history and culture. Can there be Culture without Education?
April 14, 2009
Tina Modotti – “Some Kind of Lady!”
Tina Modotti - “Not just another pretty face!”
While we fret about College Board AP Italian, our diasporic history and culture continues MELTING into the POT.
March 31, 2009
Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus
Clytemnestra:
… at each wound He cried aloud… [a] rain of blood
sprayed upon me…sweeter than rain of heaven
Italian film directors Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) and Matteo Garrone (Gomorra) are sociologists. Puzo and Coppola are tragedians...
March 22, 2009
Italian American Culture: Robert Venturi vs. Frankie Valli
Little Italy: Urban Village Street Corner Society
Italian American culture is southern Italian/Sicilian culture filtered through Little Italies
June 18, 2008
Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”
Annabella Sciorra - Actress
“What you write on paper is American. What’s in your veins is Italian.”
June 7, 2008
“Mount Allegro” revisited in terms of Gribaudi and Dickie’s historiography
The first lesson that an historian must learn before 'putting pen to paper' is that “with pen and paper anyone can write anything.” A document cannot be thought of as a...
May 19, 2008
Southern Italy Patriarchal Family: The evidence and critique of Gabriella Gribaudi’s counter argument
The historian does not have the luxury of law court judges who rule evidence admissible or inadmissible. In the historian’s court, all evidence is and must be admitted. ...
May 15, 2008
Sinatra – the dialogue with Joey Skee continues
My knowledge is Socratic: I know my ignorance!
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