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Talkin’ Hybrid Moments

Joey Skee

Introductory comments to the Calandra Institute’s November 5th symposium “Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America.”

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative

Linking the Diaspora Musically

Joey Skee

Hip hop is contributing to an expanding Italian diasporic consciousness, one that offers possibilities for an anti-racist politic

Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”

Tom Verso

“What you write on paper is American. What’s in your veins is Italian.”

Salve, Ciao (“Chee-ow”)

Renata Conte

Our Fiat Seicento was the only one of its kind on my block. My parents told me that we drive this car because it “comes from Italy, like Daddy”...

Fred Gardaphe: The Importance of Defining “Identity”

Letizia Airos Soria

“Italians in the Americas”. Fred Gardaphe, recently appointed Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the J.D. Calandra Institute, delivers the keynote lecture entitled...

Decidedly Not Italian Enough

Joey Skee

Some thoughts on why I chose to remain silent and why I now think it's worth a blog post, thanks to Anthony Tamburri.

Beyond the “Basciument”

Fred Gardaphè

When Niccolo Machiavelli penned his masterpiece, The Prince, Italy was a land divided and besieged by many foreign forces. ...

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