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Anthony J. Tamburri

A Language of Acceptance

Anthony Julian Tamburri

In order for Italian Americans to tackle head-on the discourse of race and ethnicity we should abandon the implicitly exclusionary term “tolerance,” which implies something...

Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Distinguished Professor

O. C.

Now, effective this past September 1, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is a CUNY Distinguished Professor. The status is conferred...

Immigration. Its stories. A resource for all

Letizia AIros

We accompanied Laura Boldrini on her visit to the Museum of Emigration at Ellis Island. Her guides: rangers Franco Paolino and Danielle Simonelli, and Professor Anthony J....

Why MAFIAs? Studying What Many Have Chosen To Ignore

Joseph Sciorra

APRIL 25 & 26 AT THE JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE. A two-day symposium involving historians and criminologists, sociologists, literary and film critics, as well...

Migrants of Yesterday and today

Roberta Michelino

In occasion of International Migrants Day, the 18 of December at United Nation there will be a discussion about the important relationship between migration and development. We...

Italian Identity and Italian Americans in the Third Millennium

Azzurra Giorgi

Constructive dialogue at John Jay College. Italian and Italian American authors discussed the changing nature of Italian and Italian American culture in contemporary society....

Breaking the Silence, Yet Again

Letizia Airos



Reflections on indifference and forgetfulness between musical notes as the names of families deported to Auschwitz are read on Park Avenue. Against the ever-present risk of...

Anti-Italianism. Essays on a Prejudice

Luca Delbello

At the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute roundtable discussion with book editors William Connell and Fred Gardaphé to discuss stereotypes, prejudice, and assimilation...

Some Night Thoughts on the Termination of Italian Language Programs

Anthony Julian Tamburri

It surely seems that the termination and/or reduction of Italian studies programs is becoming a habitual thing. Even if not, what can we do about it?

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