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Bill de Blasio: A Progressive Mayor for All New Yorkers Part II

Jerry Krase

While I, and other self-confessed “Progressives” celebrate the victory of Bill De Blasio in the recent New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary, there is need to pause and...

The Secret History of Italian Americans on TV

Joey Skee

Pausing the flickering image of the cathode ray tube.

Anti-defamation, a Punch Line

Joey Skee

Something Funny about Somewhere.

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...

Fini: “Other dangers” Lie on the Political Horizon. But Just What are They?

Judith Harris

"Our Constitution is the foundation and guarantee of the unity of the Republic,” Fini told a group of students visiting the Chamber of Deputies the other day. He added:...

Fear and (Self-) Loathing in Italian America

Joey Skee

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

Italian Americans in the Trap of Television. An Interview with Maria Laurino

Ottorino Cappelli

Italian Americans should put an end to their obsession with their image in the television media. Television, in general, tends to caricature reality; it likes showing things that...

Are you (we) stupid or what?

Jerry Krase

Solving global and national crises requires accurate and timely information. Television news and information programming is little help in that regard.

Sharks and Mobsters: 2 Oft-told Tales

Jerry Krase

Seeing the Pattern of Italian Stereotypes in slights, sites, and sights of all kinds

Explaining American Politics: What's Left of Media Bias

Jerry Krase

The American Right often complains of left-wing media bias, yet the big-time American media, Fox, NBC, CBS, Bloomberg, et al are hardly Marxist-Leninist Kommissars.

Whites on a Leash: Italian Americans and White Privilege in the U.S.

Fred Gardaphe

If not totally black, Italians have certainly complicated the notion of whiteness in America so that they are neither totally white, and it is this in-between status, that makes...

i-Italy: “A Space as We Define It”

Eleonora Mazzucchi

The jury's out. A Pulitzer Prize-winner, a heartthrob of the silver screen and a teen journalist all agree: i-Italy's got a bright future. A capacious auditorium at the CUNY...

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