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Games, Media, and Politics. Does "Mafia II" Defame Italian Americans? Interview with Andre' DiMino

(28 08 2010) Ottorino Cappelli

Several Italian-American organizations are staging an anti-defamation campaign against the videogame "Mafia II" on the ground that it offends, discriminates, and stereotypes...

Italian-American Nicknames Are No Joke

(16 04 2010) Darrell Fusaro

Everyone’s familiar with nicknames. Mikey, Snookie, Noodles, The Situation. We’ve heard them all. But the ones given to you by your Italian-American friends? They always...

So, you're Italian-American? Prove it.

(14 03 2010) Darrell Fusaro

On February 1, 2001, I had to prove that I was Italian-American. I brought this upon myself a month earlier when I made the mistake of boasting to an acquaintance.

From Roseto to the “Big Time”: An Interview with Adriana Trigiani

(18 08 2008) Stephanie Longo

Trigiani is best known as the author of the "Big Stone Gap" trilogy, "Lucia, Lucia", and "The Queen of the Big Time".

Organized Crime: Source Of Italy's Economic Strength

(17 08 2008) Dom Serafini

The publisher of an English-language Italian-American publication, for which I write a regular column, rejected the following article because it "doesn't promote a positive image...

Italian Trash and Stereotypes at Their Highest: A YouTube Phenomenon

(25 06 2008) Ottorino Cappelli

An Italian/Australian (?) trash movie parody reaches 2.000.000 views on YouTube...

Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”

(18 06 2008) Tom Verso

“What you write on paper is American. What’s in your veins is Italian.”

Becoming Italian-American

(16 06 2008) Stephanie Longo

Sometimes ethnicity is a choice rather than a fact.

Queer Encounters of the Italian Kind: An Interview with Filmmaker, Marie Martino

(30 05 2008) Mary Cappello

The first in a series of conversations with (mostly but not exclusively) gay and lesbian writers, artists, filmmakers, and public intellectuals who have some link to Italian or...

Against Rudy Giuliani the Strategy Is to Divide Italian-Americans

(16 01 2008) Dom Serafini

In Italy, amid political turmoil that is absorbing public opinion, people are hardly aware that America is preparing for a new presidential election. This realization is...

Vic Damone’s Italian Cousin

(26 12 2007) Joey Skee

Italian singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela returns to the States in January 2008.

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