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Silence Is Not the Answer

(22 12 2011) Fred Gardaphe

Saviano is right. Silence is not the answer; protesting dramatic portrayals of mafiosi is not the answer. Italian Americans have spent more time and money fighting fictional...

The Poet and the Life Coach, Jessica Femiani and Susan Marc Lawley Feature at IAWA, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011

(23 11 2011) IAWA .

New York, NY- On Saturday, November 12, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) presents emerging writer and IAWA Board member, Jessica Femiani and Dr. Susan Marc...

Organized Culture

(10 02 2010) 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?...

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

(04 02 2010) Joey Skee

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

The Situation

(20 01 2010) 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...

Real Italians

(20 01 2010) Joey Skee

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

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

(29 11 2009) Joey Skee

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

Between Black and White. The First Columbus Day of the Obama Era.

(05 10 2009) Ottorino Cappelli

Musings on the symbolic coincidence of the first "Italian month" under an African American president—and what we could make of it.

Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment

(19 01 2009) Joey Skee

Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.

Obamania or Obamaphobia: Italians in a Post-Bush America

(12 11 2008) Jerry Krase

Italian American intellectuals and Italians in Italy might have given great support to Barack Obama's historic Presidential triumph but Italian American voters, at least those in...

Racism/Razzismo Part II: Yusuf Hawkins and the Closing of the American Mind

(09 10 2008) Jerry Krase

This was the first of two articles I wrote in The Brooklyn Free Press shortly after Yusuf Hawkins' murder in the summer of 1989. Although it concerns his brutal slaying by a...

No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings

(06 07 2008) Stephanie Longo

Take love of community, ethnic pride, and add a dash of Dean Martin and you have Scranton’s own Jack DeLeo.

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