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Camille Paglia: A Crown Jewel of Italian Americana Languishes in the Shadow of the Sopranos

Tom Verso

An Italian American tragedy - a ‘low-brow’ culture that can’t read Paglia because of low education levels. She doesn’t write books for the beach.

Why They Came – Italy’s Shame

Tom Verso

Americans of Italian descent should demand that Italy apologize for the dehumanization and exploitation of our grandparents and build memorials of contrition and appreciation to...

To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??

Tom Verso

Italian Americans are generally not highly educated, and they are especially lacking in education about their history and culture. Can there be Culture without Education?

The Wrestler: Why This Film Appeals to Some Italian-Americans

Marc Edward DiPaolo

While not as great as people say, Darren Aronofsky's latest film has a lot in it that speaks to Italian-Americans. At least, some my age from NY and NJ, that is.

Italian American Culture: Robert Venturi vs. Frankie Valli

Tom Verso

Italian American culture is southern Italian/Sicilian culture filtered through Little Italies

B. Amore's "multi-book" in Rome. An Interview

Simona Zecchi

B. Amore's exhibition "Life line: filo della vita" (Ellis Island, 2000) consisted of a series of tales told through images and sculptures, threads that had united generations of...

BLOOD TYPE: RAGU. Irreverent with Love

Fred Gardaphe

An Inter(e)view with playwright and actor Frank Ingrasciotta

Just when we thought it was safe to go back into the water...

Anthony Julian Tamburri

No matter how much we think we have progressed in our social and ethnic evolution, there is always someone to raise the ugly head of bigotry, reminding us that the 1950s — when...

Return to Naples. The Power of Family, History and Memory

Stanislao Pugliese*

A work that treats of two aspects of modern Italian culture not familiar through the tourist industry image of Italy: Jewish culture in Naples and the 1960s divorced from the...

Remembrance of Jews past, but never lost

Jerry Krase

Being reminded of International Holocaust Remembrance Day makes me recall many things... past present and future..

Village People and Bronx Tales

George De Stefano

Two Italian American memoirs recreate lost (New York) worlds

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF i-ITALY

Since 2000, folklorist Joseph Sciorra, aka Joey Skee, one of our most active bloggers, has been building an original presepio in his Brooklyn kitchen... With his permission, we're...

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