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Guido: An Italian-American Youth Style

In the wake of the anti-defamation  campaign against MTV's  reality show Jersey Shore, the John D. Calandra Italian American Istitute of CUNY decided to host a colloquium entitled "Guido: An Italian-American Youth Style."

Some exponents of the Italian-American community objected to the Calandra Institute holding such colloquium at all, seeing it as a "legitimation" of the guido lifestyle and a “support” for MTV.

This special issue outlines this "controversy" and reports about the Calandra Institute’s Colloquium.



Summary

VIDEO - Colloquium @ John D. Calandra Italian American Istitute of CUNY

In the wake of the anti-defamation campaign against MTV's reality show Jersey Shore, the John D. Calandra Italian American Istitute of CUNY decided to host a colloquium entitled...

VIDEO. Fred Gardaphe. Guido, an Italian-American Controversy

Fred Gardaphe on 'Guido culture' and why the wave of negative response to MTV's Jersey Shore comes from what he calls 'irony deficiency' in the Italian-American community.

Organized Culture

Fred Gardaphe

If you believe that the “Jersey Shore” show of MTV is really gangsters without guns, then you should do something about it. But since when have we become afraid of our youth?...

Guido: an Italian American Youth Style

Anthony Julian Tamburri

This colloquium is not about the MTV show “Jersey Shore” and it does not justify it in any manner. This colloquium is about the phenomenon of the “Guido” that, regardless...

Dialogue and Debate: Not Denigration and Dismissal

Fred Gardaphe

Editorial Note: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute decided to host a colloquium entitled "Guido: An Italian-American Youth Style" on January 21, 20010. Guest...

Guidos on MTV: Tangled Up in the Feedback Loop

Donald Tricarico*

Why has MTV produced a youth culture reality show that showcases Guido and Italian identity? Guido offers a symbol that specifically identifies the brand; Italian ethnicity makes...

Guido: A Generational Rebellion. Interview with Donna M. Chirico

Ottorino Cappelli

I am not sure why mimicking the guido style is any better or worse than folks in a previous generation trying to be like James Dean or the pre-Godfather Marlon Brando. It is one...

The Situation

Robert Viscusi

'Guido' is a phenomenon that demands attention. If Italian American social advance were as real, as secure, and as substantial as many Italian Americans believe it to be (I am...

After Thoughts on Guido

Chickie Farella

Watching the live netcast of the Calandra Institute Colloquium, January 21, 2010

Guidos and Negros

Jerry Krase

The Italian and Italian American traditions share many common practices, the most important of which for the case at hand is the knack for rhetorical and other displays. It is the...

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...

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”...

Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Demographics

Tom Verso

The name ‘Guido’ has come to characterize the ‘20 something’ generation of Italian Americans. US Census data provides an approximation of that generation with data on the...

Real Italians

Joey Skee

A social scientist’s take on guidos, prominenti, and intellectual inquiry.

Italian Americans Between Guidos and Columbus. An Interview with Nancy Carnevale

Ottorino Cappelli

There is nothing new in certain segments of the community trying to impose their views of what it means to be Italian American on others. This controversy reminds me of recent...

The Guido Controversy: Dirty Laundry and Deep Rugs. An Interview with Gianfranco Norelli

Ottorino Cappelli

The Director of “Pane Amaro” (Bitter Bread), an acclaimed doumentary about the life and history of early Italian immigrats in the U.S., talks about whether sweeping dirt...

Guido: Stereotype, Caricature, or Lifestyle?

Chiara and Franco Montalto

What is this guido thing? Is it pure caricature put on us by the outside world, or do we have an active part in it? Is it lifestyle or demeaning stereotype? A (former guido)...

On Guidos, Gramsci, and Irony Deficiency

Laura E. Ruberto

Why Italian Americans need to take action, a Pasquinian response to some recent debates.

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