South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
April 24, 2008
The Italian Election: American Voters and “The Southern Question”
Comments posted by i-Italy bloggers Stanton Burnett and Marina Melchionda regarding the recent Italian elections place the outcome of that election solidly in the 150 year...
April 20, 2008
Italian American Culture: Illusion or Reality?
Melting Pot
Anthony Tamburii: “We simply cannot continue to engage in a series of reminiscences that lead primarily to nostalgic recall.” --- But, in reality, is there anything more to...
April 13, 2008
Bob Giraldi’s movie “Dinner Rush”: The future (if any) of Italian American culture
“Dinner Rush” brilliantly depicts the transition from the unequivocal Little Italy culture to the metamorphosing post-immigrant culture.
April 7, 2008
Don DeLillo ‘Comes Home’ “Game 6” and “Underworld”
Don DeLillo in Bronx playground
You can take the boy away from Little Italy. But, you can never take Little Italy away from the boy! And, the boy…is always in the man.
April 2, 2008
Italian American Dual Citizenship and Voting Rights - "Forget about it"
Letizia Battaglia
One person two lands (my title)
Visa vis Italian American culture, I think dual citizenship/voting is pernicious.
March 16, 2008
“Italian Signs, American Streets” as a study of I/A culture through literature (strengths and weaknesses)
Italian Signs
As the empiricist said to the metaphysician: “Should I believe you or my lying eyes.”
March 4, 2008
“Bitter Rice”, “The Earth Trembles” and “The Italian/American State of Mind”(culture)
The Women of Tci Trezza
In film literature, the essence of the Southern Question is dramatically demonstrated by the juxtaposition of two late 1940’s Italian films “Bitter Rice” and “The Earth...
February 17, 2008
Captain Correlli’s Mandolin - The dialectical unity of the Italian man’s contradictory ‘state of mind’
Italian Soldiers Surrendering
Hollywood, the ultimate purveyor of majority culture, recast the 1930’s macho gangsters into Frank Sinatra acting the Italian American Gunga Din, in “From Here to Eternity.”
February 9, 2008
“Sicilian Lights on Roman Origins”
Romulus and Remus
Romulus and Remus were Sicilians?
February 2, 2008
“Off the Boat” - Then and Now
Italians approaching Ellis Island
Scholars have failed to differentiate two different Italian American “states of mind” and the cultural and sociological implications of that dichotomy.
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 5, 2008
Sicilian Vespers and the history of the Flag of Sicily
Flag of Sicily
...when that Frenchman laid his hands on that Sicilian woman the whole island of Sicily screamed in unison – “ABBASTANZA!” The revolution that came to be known as the...
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