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July 11, 2008
Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.
Eliza Putnam Heaton, "By-Paths in Sicily"
"Door Charms for the Evil Eye" (detail), Sicily, circa 1910.
Iettature, malie, & la lingua a strascinuni in the 21st century.
July 2, 2008
Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son
Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative.
May 26, 2008
Brigand or Emigrant, but Ultimately Film Protagonist
Michelina De Cesare (1841-1868)
Representations of brigands have shaped and continue to reshape perceptions of Italy and its people throughout the world.
January 12, 2008
Poet Vincent Ferrini, 1913-2007
Vincent Ferrini reciting "Forge Plant."
Poet Vincent Ferrini, 1913-2007
January 9, 2008
The Cost of Freedom: The Rascals' Struggle for Change
Photo courtesy of Joe Russo/TheRascalsArchives.com
"Good Lovin'" (1966), The Young Rascals
"In 1967-68, The Rascals were on top of the pop charts. So they decided to use their power to take a stand on Civil Rights. That’s when the problems started."
December 25, 2007
Gramsci’s Presepio
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.
The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.
December 7, 2007
Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/kerouac-spontaneous.html
Jack Kerouac
A little piece of drivel by Jack Kerouac begs the question, What's Italian-American about On The Road?
December 6, 2007
Salve
Dina Gerasia/The Malìa Collective website
La Società di Sant'Anna, Villa Avenue, Bronx, New York, c. 1940.
First post.
September 2, 2008
La Madonna Nera of New York City
Smiljana Peros
Drawing la Madonna Nera in chalk, Manhattan, September 8, 2006.
Italian Americans gather at a gay bar in Manhattan in celebration of the Black Madonna.
September 20, 2008
What’s So Funny about the Virgin Mary?
Luca Enrico Fantini
St. Mother Cabrini (LuLu LoLo) and me.
Ludic and hybridic reworkings of Catholic imagery and ritual are part of recent reimagining of Italian-American culture and identity.
January 27, 2008
The Cultural Politics of Coffee
Joseph Sciorra
Mimmo Lepore, Sal’s Pizzeria, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. January 26, 2008.
In Search of a Decent Espresso in New York City.
September 15, 2008
The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
What happens when a PBS station targets Italian Americans as donors?
March 25, 2009
Chalking Memory
Joseph Sciorra
Chalk memorial to Triangle Factory Fire victims, 509 East 13th Street, New York, March 25, 2009.
Remembering the victims of the Triangle Factory Fire victims.
July 29, 2008
Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son
Don Homer
A “teachable moment” about mafia realities and representations.
March 8, 2008
Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
Turncoat mafioso’s statement about media depictions of Italian Americans is “smoking gun” say some Italian-Americans. No kidding.
January 20, 2010
Real Italians
Joseph Sciorra, circa 1980.
A social scientist’s take on guidos, prominenti, and intellectual inquiry.
February 4, 2010
Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.
February 4, 2010
Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.
February 24, 2010
Return of the Italian-American Voldemort
An update from Rita Skeeter, gossipy reporter for the Daily Prophet.
October 1, 2009
The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise's Inaugural Annual Reception, Gala, and Dinner Dance
A blog post about a real event parodying very surreal events.
December 14, 2009
An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) in front of a presepio.
The lost Christmas special of "The Honeymooners" with an Italian-American theme, from the Imaginarium of Joey Skee.
January 3, 2010
Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.
A story about racism in contemporary Italy so absurd it could be true.
June 1, 2010
Building Community, the Brooklyn Way
Joseph Sciorra
KAVES, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, April 14, 2010.
Meet KAVES, band leader, tattoo artist, community activist.
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- Sinatra, a Morality Tale.
- Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.
- The Vergognosi of Staten Island
- Linking the Diaspora Musically
- "C'è la luna": Anatomy of an Italian-American "Folk" Song
- Francesco Pepe, My Dutch Paisan
- Lace in the Crystal City
- The Cultural Politics of Coffee
- Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
- Remembering James Groppi
- An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
- The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
- St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style
- Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
- My Italian American Museum
- Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind
- Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.
- What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
- Folk Performances of the Italian-American Prominenti
- Thinking Neapolitan
- La Madonna Nera of New York City
- The Garden of Earthly Delights in Fresno
- Vittoria Pietropaoli, An Appreciation
- Backyard Figs from Brooklyn
- Chi è Pete Panto?
- Italianità alternativa
- An Ex-W.O.P. Casts His Vote
- Bologna 1977
- Chalking Memory
- Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment
- Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.
- Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son
