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Stereotypes of Death

Donna Chirico

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...

I Am The Pope

Donna Chirico

Enter Francis with an opportunity to identify once again according to religious affiliation and the public has seized this opportunity.

Reimagining White Ethnicity: a Conversation with Joseph Sciorra

Diana Del Monte

The John D. Calandra Institute's Annual Conference promises to be a memorable one in 2012. "Reimagining White Ethnicity: Expressivity, Identity, Race" brings together scholars...

Obama: Global Leadership, Global Responsibility

Piero Bassetti

Barack Obama has mixed the relationship between a political message and the boundaries of the nation in which the message is sent. Has Obama created a global constituency? If so,...

Italianità on FaceBook

by Jana Vizmuller-Zocco & Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano

Nowadays several Facebook groups focus on the theme of Italian Culture. In which way they can be considered adequate testimonials of "Italianità"?

Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”

Tom Verso

“What you write on paper is American. What’s in your veins is Italian.”

Forgetting the Past: Ethnic Identity and How Italian and English Fail Us

Laura E. Ruberto

The role of popular memory has a lot to do with how ethnic identities get formed; what would happen if there were words in English or Italian that clarified the history of Italian...

Becoming Italian-American

Stephanie Longo

Sometimes ethnicity is a choice rather than a fact.

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