South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
February 26, 2013
Why Monti Lost – "Don’t be mess’n wit de peoples bro!"
If a Gangster stops you on the street, puts a gun into your face and demands the money in your wallet; it is a crime punishable by imprisonment ... If, on the other hand,...
February 15, 2013
Exploring American Southern-Italianitá (fa bella figura) – 1950s Street Corner Doo-wop singers.
Is there such a thing as southern-Italian American culture beyond Little Italy nostalgia and misplaced Renaissance adoration? Is there something more to southern-Italian American...
February 9, 2013
Mafia – the Origins and Meaning of the ‘Word’ – Do Scholars Misrepresent and Denigrate Giuseppe Pitré???
Left: Alleged Sicilian Mafiosi. Right: Giuseppe Pitré
The notable and seminal University of Palermo historian Salvatore Lupo wrote: “Among the growing mass of printed material concerning the Mafia, it is rare to find history books..
January 27, 2013
Global Warming - “Fall of Man” and Birth of Mediterranean (Primordial Southern Italian) Culture
Top: What north Africa probably looked like during Ice Age. Bottom: Today
After the northern Italian Piedmontese conquest of southern Italy and Sicily (aka Risorgimento), the obvious disparities between the Italian North and South were often explained...
January 1, 2013
“2013 Year of (north) Italian Culture in the United States”... Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony foisted on American Terroni
Neapolitan Pino Aprile wrote, in his ground breaking cultural history of southern Italy “Terroni” ....“Through a cultural lobotomy, the South was deprived of its...
November 28, 2012
Folklore of Sicilian Peasant Culture – Perniciously ignored in Italian (Italy Ends at the Garigliano) Studies Programs
The success of the Gramsci-esque “Cultural Hegemonic” dominance of Northern Italian culture over the South is brilliantly documented in Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”. ...
October 30, 2012
Italy’s Anti-Labor ‘Sceccu-Bankster’ Government ...“The Fish Rots from the Head Down”
If a Gangster stops you on the street, puts a gun into your face and demands the money in your wallet; it is a crime punishable by imprisonment ... If, on the other hand,...
October 17, 2012
“Clash of Western and Islamic Civilizations” 2012 A.D. began circa 800 B.C. in Sicily
In the Summer 1993 issue of the highly prestigious “Foreign Affairs” journal published by the very influential “Council on Foreign Relations”; Samuel P. Huntington, Ivy...
September 23, 2012
Sicilian Responses....United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit ... Plato, Lampedusa and Sciascia
President Obama and Jon Cozine
“Ain’t No Criminals on Wall Street”
September 4, 2012
Sicilian Dawn
“Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared...Square in your ship's path are Sirens, crying beauty to bewitch men...woe to the innocent who hears that sound!” (Homer)
When the Phoenicians came to Sicily circa 1000 B.C. they were not the first. Sicani, Sicels and Elymians anticipated by centuries the dozens coming after; all who could not...
August 24, 2012
Southern-Italian American ‘Education Attainment’ – Census Numbers ... “Read ‘em ‘n Weep”...Guidos Galore
GUIDOS
While the Italian American ‘prominenti’ and ‘literati’ engaged in an intra class ‘dust-up’ over the “Jersey Shore/Guido” thing, both points of view are...
August 15, 2012
The Church (re)Turns Right... San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone...Southern-Italian Americana Implications
For two of their three thousand year history, the cultural bedrock and core values for the people South of Rome was the Catholic Church. Waves of conquers came and went changing...
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