Occhio contro occhio
Cultural Politics/Reimagining Italian
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July 29, 2008
Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son
Don Homer
A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.
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.
April 14, 2008
Folk Performances of the Italian-American Prominenti
Joseph Sciorra
A banquet hall passageway.
Galas, banquet receptions, and award ceremonies are some of the most enduring Italian-American folk performances that reveal much about how group identity is created and reproduced.
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 15, 2008
The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
What happens when a PBS station targets Italian Americans as donors?
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.
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.
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