Raccogli e passa
Raccogli e passa
Dispatches from California.
July 3, 2008
Clemenza and Tessio are like Britain and France
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather"
The Pax Corleone, or what happens when two political analysts offer a close reading of "The Godfather" in an effort to explain contemporary US politics.
June 30, 2008
The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America
Immigration Authorization Stamp, Argentina
Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.
June 17, 2008
Forgetting the Past: Ethnic Identity and How Italian and English Fail Us
Wanto Market (Japanese American Market), Oakland, California, 1942
The role of popular memory has a lot to do with how ethnic identities get formed; what would happen if there were words in English or Italian that clarified the history of Italian...
June 1, 2008
Becoming Italian American: POWs and National Identity
Benicia Historical Society
Italian Service Unit, Benicia, California (circa 1944)
Two national holidays, la Festa della Repubblica and Memorial Day, bring up the question of what it means to belong.
May 19, 2008
Holiday in Italy! (without Leaving the U.S.)
Laura E. Ruberto
Gondola Servizio, Lake Merritt, Oakland, California
The cult of Italy repackaged for US consumer culture.
May 6, 2008
Gli intellettuali rispondono alla crisi in Italia
Brianza Popolare
Antonio Gramsci
Sulla scia di Gramsci: gli intellettuali di oggi e la crisi italiana
May 3, 2008
Gepetto (sic), Fairyland, and Oakland’s Lost Italian Americans
City of Oakland
Entrance to Children's Fairyland, Oakland, California
Geppetto's been building Pinocchio for over 40 years in Oakland's Fairyland.
April 28, 2008
A Californian Goes East
Geroge Bates/NY Times
Sanfrooklyn
A look at Oakland's Italian American neighborhood and what it might tell us about Nutley, New Jersey.
April 22, 2008
Italian Farming in the Central Valley
photo by Al and Deanna DeNurra
Baresi Brand (packing label)
Weaving together oral stories from California's Italian American farmers in the Central Valley.
April 13, 2008
A Gramscian Podcast on Women Workers and Migration
photo, Anna Collette
Book cover, "Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S."
Podcasting on Gramsci, immigrant women, labor, and the history of San Diego's cannery workers.
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