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The Italian American Community’s War on Negative Stereotypes: a Failure

Stanislao Pugliese

I am honored to participate in this very important dialogue with my distinguished colleagues, who have already weighed in with profound and even provocative observations. While...

Silence Is Not the Answer

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...

Sodom versus Gomorra

Jerry Krase

In the second of a series of commentaries by Italian-American intellectuals on Roberto Saviano's recent talk about Mafia at the New York University, sociologist Jerome Krase...

Roberto Saviano to Speak Today at Occupy Wall Street

Roberto Saviano, Italian journalist and author of “Gomorrah”, will be joining the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park today at 12 pm.

Heart warming vs heart breaking

Judith Harris

In Welcome to the South, Luca Miniero's remake of an acclaimed French comedy, a North Italian postal employee aspires to a transfer to Milan, but instead finds himself dispatched...

Execution of Mayor Angelo Vassallo. Italy Mourns Another Camorra Victim

Anna Di Lellio

The mayor of the small town of Pollica Angelo Vassallo was gunned down execution style on Sunday night. He had strongly opposed the camorra’s interests in big public contracts...

The Child Soldiers of Scampia

Judith Harris

Davide Cerullo comes from the gangland of Scampia, Naples. Once a drug hustler, he finally rebelled to the "easy life" the Camorra offered him: "Give people an opportunity, and...

Mafia, Kinds of Applause & Saviano's Quotes

Judith Harris

A confusion of applause: ovation at Perugia for Italy’s heroic Roberto Saviano and hurrahs at Reggio for arrested ’Ndrangheta boss Giovanni Tegano

Una tragedia ridicola

Stanislao Pugliese

Francesco Durante’s "Scuorno" (Milan: Mondadori, 2008) offers an enlightened and enlightening brief introduction into the cultural mindset of Neapolitan culture

"The Africans Will Probably Save Italy"

George De Stefano

Saviano hails the “forgotten courage” of immigrants

Due De Stefano

George De Stefano

But the one in Naples reports from the ground zero of organized crime

Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus

Tom Verso

Italian film directors Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) and Matteo Garrone (Gomorra) are sociologists. Puzo and Coppola are tragedians...

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