italian-americans

NYC's "Italian" Mayor between Past and Future

Fred Gardaphe

Will this new mayor's Italian identity reflect more than nostalgia and impact our youth in the ways his Italian ancestors' experiences shaped Bill di Blasio?

The Changing Ethnic Factor of American Politics

Fred Gardaphe *

A recent book on New York politics and the Italian-American ethnic factor was presented at Queens College on September 25 in a forum that included New York State Senators Tony...

United We Stand. The New Italy

Christopher Thomas Lambright

i-Italy receives and publishes an article by Chris Lambright, a 37-years old Italian-American and African-American man whose experience as mixed ethnicity kid in the 1980s had him...

Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)

Tom Verso

So Pretty / So Witty / Not Phony / But Soooo Not Terroni .... Spare me Manzoni - Yo / Don’t yah know / American Terroni want / a South of Rome show

We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of...

Saviano’s Eyes

Robert Viscusi

Roberto Saviano has the eyes of a prophet who has seen Italy plain. Gramsci in jail, Dante in hell. This is the Italy where Popes die mysteriously and there are secret cities...

Fireworks for a United Italy

Antonella Iovino

Casa Belvedere in Staten Island joined in celebrating 150 years of Italian unification, presenting an evening of memories, music, and fireworks.

Geraldine A Ferraro: A woman of Consequence Who Did “Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

by Aileen Riotto Sirey *

Proud of her Italian ethnic background, she was a compassionate and decent woman, a great mother and wife. Both in her private and public life she never lost the courage to...