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June 25, 2008
Notes on the Passing of Rudy Vecoli
Jerry Krase Denver Little Italy Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Novemeber 2007
American Italian Historical Assocaition Annual Conference participants on a tour of our Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Denver's Little Italy, November 2007
The passing of Rudolph J. Vecoli is a great loss but his legacy is much greater.
June 18, 2008
Do the correct thing
Guess who's gonna be President? and other ruminations
Looking for and unfortunately finding common elements in "The Race Debate in America and Italy”
May 13, 2008
Explaining American Politics: From Clinton to Fossella
by Matson, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Explaining American politics to foreigners is not easy especially in this Presidential Campaign Season when you can't tell the pachaderms from the jackasses and vice versa. Ironic...
April 7, 2008
Signs of Italian - Verso Gardaphe
i-italy provides a great opportunity for intelligent discourse about the meaning(s) of Italian and Italian American. I hope to contribute to one created by Tom Verso and Fred...
April 5, 2008
Random Images/Thoughts about Italy
Jerry Krase
Soon after Columbus arrived in America relationships between Italians and Italian Americans began to change and just as this statue of him in the square named after him those relationships have been very complex indeed.
A few random images of Italy and Italian America taken over the years by the author in response to my recent contribution to the "Why Vote?" discussion
April 5, 2008
Why Vote. Italian Elections Through a half-Italian/American’s Eyes
Why it is important for Italians in America as well as Italian-Americans to vote in the Italian elections. What Italy can do for them and those who are not even Italian.
March 25, 2008
IRAQ PAINPROGRESS, Redux, again
Jerry Krase 2003
My wife and I joined the march from the sidelines. I was there to give a Poster Presentation "Building a Campus 'Community of Diversity': Democracy Practicing and Citizenship" Learning to Change Conference: Good Work in Challenging Times, American Association for Higher Education. Washington, DC. March 14-17, 2003.
Thinking about and re-thinking about the Iraq War after its Fifth Anniversary.
March 15, 2008
Glass Houses (Case di Vetro)
Jerry Krase pencil and ink
Looking out the window with one broken pane above.
Casting stones while in glass houses seems to be a favorite pastime of politicians of all races, creeds, genders, and "diss"-abilities. Take for example, Spitzer and Ferraro, not...
March 1, 2008
What’s Real (and not) in American Politics?
Jerry Krase
Public Commentary on Political Commentator
The problem with trying to distinguish fact from fiction and reality from simulation in American politics today is that there is no difference.
February 12, 2008
Italian Unity - Unità Italiana
Jerry Krase
Victory Vittoria
Having recently witnessed the orgiastic rite of the Right as the Left left their positions of leadership(?) of the Italian Government, I wondered what Italian Unity (Unità...
January 26, 2008
Schadenfreude Italiano
After all the histrionic fuss about how Ian Fisher and The New York Times made Italy look bad (faceva fare una mala figura all'Italia), Italy just did it all by itself (da sola).
January 16, 2008
Giuliani's Italian American Voting Bloc?
Why Rudy Giuliani can't rely on co-ethnicity to win. The limits of Machine Politics when it comes to Italian Americans as a potential voting bloc.
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