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Italians Enjoy Holidays Close to Home

Judith Harris

With the Ferragosto holiday Italians are relaxing into vacation mode on beaches and in the mountains, but also at home -- and indeed especially at home. As the research institute...

IAWA: Prose, Poetry, Politics and Unsung Heroes Featuring Gil Fagiani, Stephen Siciliano Saturday, May 9 at Cornelia St. Cafe

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The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents two activist authors who are also co-founders of the Vito Marcantonio Forum, Gil Fagiani and Stephen Siciliano on...

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...

Sandy & New York Italians

Azzurra Giorgi

The hurricane is coming closer and closer. The wind speeds up shaking trees and cranes. People stay indoors, and start recalling memories from their childhood and their mother...

Keyword: Different. What Guidos Are, and Are Not

Johnny DeCarlo*

The "Guido/Goomba/Cugine" is a very distinctive-looking, working-class East Coast Italian-American. The whole lifestyle may seem shallow or strange to some, but “authentic”...

A Brief Return to Rationalism

Maria Laurino

How British rationalists first soothe, then make me seethe.

Remembrance of Jews past, but never lost

Jerry Krase

Being reminded of International Holocaust Remembrance Day makes me recall many things... past present and future..

Barzini Jr. May Be Forgotten in Italy. But Not in New York

Damiano Beltrami

“Journalism between Two Worlds” last Thursday December 18. The event, supported by the Consulate General of Italy in New York and moderated by vice-editor-in-chief of Corriere...

The Ice Issue

Damiano Beltrami

For a foreigner, the war against ice is a serious issue and has to be handled professionally

The Italians: Yesterday and Today. Luigi Barzini Jr.

Journalism between Two Worlds. December 18, 2008, 3.30-6.30pm At the Italian Academy, Columbia University

Italicity: Who, What, Where, When and How's Italian

Jerry Krase

Piero Bassetti's expansive notion of Italicity not only raises great expectations but also many important questions that must be addressed before its potential can be realized.

Bensonhurst and Italia: Racism and Razzismo (Part I)

Jerry Krase

The 1989 murder of Afro-American Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn became the icon of Italian American intolerance. Recently there has been a disturbing convergence of real...

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