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A Day, or so, in the Life of Jerry Krase, De Blasio Campaign Volunteer

Jerry Krase

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn began Ivan’s bitterly cold and dark day as a forced laborer in a Gulag camp, mine began a bit more leisurely on a brilliantly warm and sunny Tuesday...

Anti-Italian Bias: Surreal or Not Surreal, That is the Question

Jerry Krase

When they are covered in the media, Italians and Italian Americans are usually the butts of their own jokes and for some of us this is not a laughing matter. Fighting back is like...

Representation of Italian and Italian/American Culture and History. "And Now What…?"

Anthony Julian Tamburri

We simply need to do more. Much as we have made overall progress in the diffusion and representation of Italian and Italian/American culture and history in the United States, we...

Italian American Culture: Illusion or Reality?

Tom Verso

Anthony Tamburii: “We simply cannot continue to engage in a series of reminiscences that lead primarily to nostalgic recall.” --- But, in reality, is there anything more to...

Mary Reveals Her Secrets

Letizia Airos Soria

In “Nine Good Teeth” filmmaker Alex Halpern tells the life story of his one hundred year old Italian/American grandmother Mary Mirabito Livornese Cavalieri. It is a story...

"Nine Good Teeth". L'energia di Mary

Letizia Airos Soria

"Nine Good Teeth". Il regista Alex Halpern racconta sua nonna, la centenaria italo/americana Mary. Ne nasce una storia a più voci che smitizza utilizzando la realtà e che fa...

Bordighera Prize. Happiness in Poetry

Michelina Zambella

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute welcomed the winner of this year’s Bordighera Poetry Prize, Tony Magistrale for “What She Says About Love”; the first...

I/A "State of Mind" - An Enigma?

Tom Verso

To understand the "Italian American state of mind" necessitates a major social scientific study. It is still an enigma - ironically to Italian Americans themselves

An Italian/American State of Mind

Anthony J. Tamburri

In launching i-Italy, we shall inevitably re-consider our own individual positions within the Italian/American community. ...

Making Italians All Over Again

Robert Viscusi

When the Risorgimento finally succeeded in joining the many parts of Italy into a single nation, Massimo D’Azeglio remarked, “We have made Italy, now we must make Italians.”

Beyond the “Basciument”

Fred Gardaphè

When Niccolo Machiavelli penned his masterpiece, The Prince, Italy was a land divided and besieged by many foreign forces. ...

It Takes a Network

Ottorino Cappelli

The Italian/American presence on the Internet may seem, at first, desolante. Try and type “Italian American” (with or without the infamous hyphen) in your google search bar.

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