An Italian/American State of Mind
In launching i-Italy, we shall inevitably re-consider our own individual positions within the Italian/American community. Namely, what are the duties and/or responsibilities of...
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Camille Paglia’s Androgyny Aesthetics - Why Italian Americans Love the Sopranos
“Bourgeois English department feminist promoting cancellation of male concentration and projection cut no ice at the corner garage…on the streets…” - or with Soprano fans..
“Off the Boat” - Then and Now
Scholars have failed to differentiate two different Italian American “states of mind” and the cultural and sociological implications of that dichotomy.
“Italian Signs, American Streets” as a study of I/A culture through literature (strengths and weaknesses)
As the empiricist said to the metaphysician: “Should I believe you or my lying eyes.”
Captain Correlli’s Mandolin - The dialectical unity of the Italian man’s contradictory ‘state of mind’
Hollywood, the ultimate purveyor of majority culture, recast the 1930’s macho gangsters into Frank Sinatra acting the Italian American Gunga Din, in “From Here to Eternity.”
To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??
Italian Americans are generally not highly educated, and they are especially lacking in education about their history and culture. Can there be Culture without Education?
Child Slavery in Sicily 1910
“The cruelties to which the child slaves of Sicily have been subjected are as bad as anything reported of the cruelties of Negro slavery.” Booker Taliaferro Washington:...
Don DeLillo ‘Comes Home’ “Game 6” and “Underworld”
You can take the boy away from Little Italy. But, you can never take Little Italy away from the boy! And, the boy…is always in the man.
“Bitter Rice”, “The Earth Trembles” and “The Italian/American State of Mind”(culture)
In film literature, the essence of the Southern Question is dramatically demonstrated by the juxtaposition of two late 1940’s Italian films “Bitter Rice” and “The Earth...
Nature or Nurture?
Does a poor Italian/American woman whose last name happens to be somehow Italian have more in common with Rudy Giuliani or with a poor African American share-cropper? I don't know..
Our Horizon and Old Stereotypes
Current discussions of the Italian-American educational record reflect outdated ideas about the limited educational and occupational horizons of Italian Americans.
I/A "State of Mind" - An Enigma?
To understand the "Italian American state of mind" necessitates a major social scientific study. It is still an enigma - ironically to Italian Americans themselves
The Role of the Community College
Catholic schools used to be a place where the needs of the IA community could be provided for. Should the role of the community college be the same?
"An Italian/American State of Mind" - A Comment
Here at i-Italy, Anthony Tamburi has a fascinating article posted: "An Italian/American State of Mind." I hope many will read it. I am posting this comment with a mind towards....
Are "Italian Americans" a fairy-tale?
Does a poor woman whose last name happens to be somehow Italian have something in common with Rudy Giuliani? Is it a blood thing? Why should they have the same "state of mind?"
"An Italian/American State of Mind" - A Rejoinder
Earlier today I posted a response to Tom Verso’s thoughts that he posted November 4 on H-Itam. I share them below, albeit slightly modified for our readers of i-Italy.
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