Italian/American NetSurfing
Italian/American NetSurfing
Perusing the Net in search of Italian, American and Italian/American news, events, discussions, curiosities and various oddities.
June 25, 2008
Italian Trash and Stereotypes at Their Highest: A YouTube Phenomenon
The Italian Spiderman trailer, from You Tube
An Italian/Australian (?) trash movie parody reaches 2.000.000 views on YouTube...
June 12, 2008
The Race Debate in America and Italy: Shall We Do the Right Thing?
A famous scene from Spyke Lee's "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
While the first African-American clinches the nomination for president, some Italian-Americans join in the Lee-Eastwood feud over racial prejudices in America. At the same time,...
May 16, 2008
Mob Violence Against Gypsies in Naples
Photographer Maurizio Cimino was born in Washington nd works as a research assistant at the University of Naples Audio Visual Research Center (Faculty of Sociology). ROM's identity is one of his main research subjects. (http://www.mauriziocimino.com)
Many Italians are making immigrants subject to the same nativistic prejudices, racism, and hate crimes that have harassed their grandparents and great grandparents in foreign...
May 15, 2008
Le molotov contro i Rom a Napoli
Spengono il fuoco? Lo riaccenderemo ... altrimenti tornano
April 12, 2008
The Italian/American Tiger Wood
Have heard latest IA expressing his thoughts on race in the 08 elections?
February 16, 2008
It Wasn’t Columbus’ Fault. Or Was It?
Musings around a frivolous article about very serious things... and some suggestions for those who think that Christopher Columbus was just an "Italian" hero.
January 3, 2008
Siamo tutti Italiani? That would be depressing...
Italians are not unique in their malaise, says Chicago blogger Robert P. Baird. At least American graduate students are equally depressed by a sense that one is stuck in an...
November 4, 2007
We Are All Romanians
Gipsy Girl - by Amir Mukhtar (posted on Flickr.com)
"We must prevent this terrible tiger, which is xenophobic rage, the racist beast, from getting out of control." (Giuliano Amato, Italy’s Interior Minister)
October 28, 2007
Pinocchio: Italian vs. American Approaches to a Complex Morality Tale
Special effects whiz Carlo Rambaldi hopes to rival the Disney classic by following Roberto Benigni’s controversial approach, bringing out the darker aspects of Carlo Collodi's...
October 28, 2007
It Takes a Network
The Italian/American presence on the Internet may seem, at first, desolante. Try and type “Italian American” (with or without the infamous hyphen) in your google search bar ....
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