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May 12, 2013

Italy's PM recognizes historical discrimination against Italian immigrant in the US!

Anthony Julian Tamburri
AmericaOggi, 12 May 2013

This article appeared in the Sunday edition of "AmericaOggi". In it's insert "Oggi7", to boot, there is an article by On. Nissoli that is also of great interest to Italian...

May 9, 2013

The Language Requirement. "Ciao, Italiano, a Brooklyn College"

Anthony Julian Tamburri
All the people in this photo spoke Italian, a local Pugliese dialect, and English, of course. A good number of their children and grandchildren also speak Italian because, to be sure, their high schools and colleges offered them the opportunity to do so.

In the United States, the requirement to study a language other than English (a.k.a. "foreign language requirement") has always been a hotly contested issue among the...

May 1, 2013

Behind the Closed Doors of the "Professoriate"

Anthony Julian Tamburri

The world of post-high school education has always been fascinating, intriguing, and, in a number of cases, perplexing. It is a place where — for four years, usually — young...

March 28, 2013

Really? This is Section A news for the United States?

Anthony Julian Tamburri
New York Times website

What follows are a few comments and musings on a topic that I have, for the most part, thought deserved little to no attention in general. I state “in general” because there...

January 14, 2013

Opera at Its Best!

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Wikipedia

Luciano Lamonarca is president of the Puglia Center in America, which promotes the Region of Puglia in all its aspects, especially in the creation and exchanges of cultural,...

September 22, 2012

The Columbus Circle Art Project. Really?

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Visiting with Cristoforo! Photo by J. Sciorra

What you find below is an email that Joseph Guagliardo sent out to a number of people a few days ago. Being one of the people on his list, I asked him if I could share it with you...

August 22, 2012

Italian/American Culture: journals and conferences

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Dennis Barone & Peter Covino, eds. Saggistica 8. Bordighera Press, 2012

Italian/American Studies will flourish only if it gets the requisite support, first and foremost, from its community in order for it then to be part of the larger discourse. We...

May 19, 2012

Words Simply Fail Us Sometimes... One school girl killed, one in critical condition, by a bomb in Italy.

Anthony Julian Tamburri

While it remains unclear at this point who is responsible for the terrorist act in Brindisi (Puglia) this morning, the perpetrators' choice of target is absolutely inscrutable. It...

January 27, 2012

We didn’t come over on the Mayflower!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of...

January 3, 2012

Roberto Saviano and the Problems of Italian America

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Roberto Saviano Lesson @ NYU

Along with the various observations that have been made by three of our esteemed colleagues (De Stefano, Gardaphé, Krase), and I must emphasize that I am in agreement as well...

September 18, 2011

Is it possible that we just can't help ourselves?

Anthony Julian Tamburri
SFGate
“Now, I can put an accent on this, but it seems like we have a situation!” Neil Cavuto, opening his segment with Andre Dimino.

A television host invites an Italian American to come and speak about the potential negativity from something like “Jersey Shore,” and yet cannot help himself from making a...

September 3, 2011

Italian America and September 11, 2001

Anthony Julian Tamburri

“After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, people from all over the world reached out to the firefighters and police officers of New York City and their families. At the...

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