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Racism/Razzismo Part III: Lest We Forget: Racism Will Make Victims of Us All

Jerry Krase

This essay is the third, and last, in my series alluding to the similarities between Bensonhurst 1989 and Italy 2008.

Clash of Civilizations in Rome. Interview with Amara Lakhous

Marina Melchionda

Amara Lakhous is in the U.S. to present his new novel "Clash of Civilizations in an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio"

“Italians Are Better Than This”

George De Stefano

Italy's only black member of Parliament this week denounced the government for inciting xenophobia and racism

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...

Youth Masses, Black Skin, and Italian Beat Music

Laura E. Ruberto

A look at the Italian youth masses of the 1960s, beat music, and una ragazza from New Orleans.

Vogue Italia Takes on Racism in Fashion Industry with ‘All-Black’ Issue

Marisa Iallonardo

Vogue Italia has been making headlines recently: the most recent issue of the quarterly, from cover to coverage, features only black models. Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca...

Does Misery Love Company? Italy’s Roma

Judith Harris

Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being...

The Seven Percent Solution?

Maria Laurino

DNA testing adds new complexities to the question about physical similarities between African-Americans and Italian-Americans.

Fear of Being Romanian in Rome

From Italy by Maria Rita Latto

Daniela decided to came to Italy years ago because, after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, she lost her job. Now she takes care of our old father. But the death of...

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