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Is Italy Turning Racist?

Judith Harris

Is Italy showing signs of turning racist? The pressure of migration brings new stresses to a country which has had, until now, a proud history of open-mindedness. Because the...

Proud to be White!

Donna Chirico

When did we become the White privileged? When did we leapfrog over our fellow tenement dwellers to a position of lofty self-righteousness? When did we lose sight of our own...

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...

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos

On the occasion of the Remembrance Day, i-Italy publishes again this interview released on 27th January 2009. An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of...

From Bensonhurst to Oslo and Beyond

Jerry Krase

Negative, or at least puzzled, reactions to visibly different newcomers is universal. Whether in America, Italy or Norway, learning how to see difference positively as part of all...

Cappuccino with Tullia Zevi

Maria Rita Latto

Tullia Zevi died Saturday at the age of 92. She was one of the historic post-war leaders of Italy's Jews and the only woman to ever hold the post of president of the country's...

Ground Zero Mosque: Ramadan Mobarak!

Jerry Krase

"I wrote this a few weeks ago but the intolerance is growing... The most venomous blabber so far has been the Newt's equating of Moslems to NAZIs and 9/11 to the Shoah. Given his...

Mario Balotelli. An Italian Soccer Player with the Wrong Skin Colour?

Tommaso Vaccarella & Tommaso Galletta

Will Italian soccer champion Mario Balotelli finally leave Italy because of racism?

“We Are Not Animals!” Italy’s Racial Riots and Their Aftermath

Maria Rita Latto

Rage and fear. This is what comes out of the images from Rosarno, a small town near the western coast of Calabria, where violent clashes broke out after two African immigrants...

While Calabria Burns

Judith Harris

“I came here to find Heaven. I found Hell”

Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar Banned in Northern Italian City

Joey Skee

A story about racism in contemporary Italy so absurd it could be true.

How Italy Became Racist. A Conversation with Lia Levi

Alessandro Cassin

On November 4, Lia Levi will present her book 'The Jewish Husband' at the Center for Jewish History in New York. It provides a poignant reflection on the far-reaching consequences...

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