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Away from Us ... Moving Somewhere Else

Annie Shapiro

Elena Perazzini interviewed more than 30 Italians before deciding on seven for her book, 'Via da Noi, Away from Us’. She chronicled their journeys starting from their initial...

Now the Cartoon Version of Italian American Identity

Donna Chirico

As if one show promoting the typecasting of Italian American identity as dysfunctional mobsters and thugs was not enough.

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...

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....

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...

Talkin’ Hybrid Moments

Joey Skee

Introductory comments to the Calandra Institute’s November 5th symposium “Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America.”

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative

Linking the Diaspora Musically

Joey Skee

Hip hop is contributing to an expanding Italian diasporic consciousness, one that offers possibilities for an anti-racist politic

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.”

Salve, Ciao (“Chee-ow”)

Renata Conte

Our Fiat Seicento was the only one of its kind on my block. My parents told me that we drive this car because it “comes from Italy, like Daddy”...

Fred Gardaphe: The Importance of Defining “Identity”

Letizia Airos Soria

“Italians in the Americas”. Fred Gardaphe, recently appointed Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the J.D. Calandra Institute, delivers the keynote lecture entitled...

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