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May 12, 2013
Italy's PM recognizes historical discrimination against Italian immigrant in the US!
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"
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"
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?
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!
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?
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
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.
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!
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
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?
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
“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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