White and Ethnic
April 5, 2014
Will Someone Tell Me Who I Am!
Which Godfather character are you?
Social media is rife these days with people taking personality quizzes. Although as a whole the enterprise seems frivolous, the underlying tension is one of personal encounter. ...
January 3, 2014
Now the Cartoon Version of Italian American Identity
The promo picture for Fugget About It
As if one show promoting the typecasting of Italian American identity as dysfunctional mobsters and thugs was not enough.
October 11, 2013
Stereotypes of Death
An extraordinary circumstance that reveals the myth making is death. It is the clashing cymbals of who we are in the eyes of the world. It is also a time when the cultural...
March 22, 2013
I Am The Pope
Hitler and Blondi
Enter Francis with an opportunity to identify once again according to religious affiliation and the public has seized this opportunity.
April 29, 2012
Proud to be White!
Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan laughs while Frank Sinatra joins in with a smile at a “prelude to victory” dinner in New York (The Boston Globe, October 1, 1980).
When did we become the White privileged? When did we leapfrog over our fellow tenement dwellers to a position of lofty self-righteousness? When did we lose sight of our own...
February 26, 2012
A Wise Guy in Paradise
Netflix launches "Lilyhammer," a series made for Norwegian television. In it you'll find almost every known stereotype of Italian/American culture that you can imagine.
