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Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)

Tom Verso

So Pretty / So Witty / Not Phony / But Soooo Not Terroni .... Spare me Manzoni - Yo / Don’t yah know / American Terroni want / a South of Rome show

We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

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...

Saviano’s Eyes

Robert Viscusi

Roberto Saviano has the eyes of a prophet who has seen Italy plain. Gramsci in jail, Dante in hell. This is the Italy where Popes die mysteriously and there are secret cities...

Fireworks for a United Italy

Antonella Iovino

Casa Belvedere in Staten Island joined in celebrating 150 years of Italian unification, presenting an evening of memories, music, and fireworks.

Geraldine A Ferraro: A woman of Consequence Who Did “Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

by Aileen Riotto Sirey *

Proud of her Italian ethnic background, she was a compassionate and decent woman, a great mother and wife. Both in her private and public life she never lost the courage to...

Italian Americans in the Trap of Television. An Interview with Maria Laurino

Ottorino Cappelli

Italian Americans should put an end to their obsession with their image in the television media. Television, in general, tends to caricature reality; it likes showing things that...

Dialogue and Debate, Part two: An Italian-American Controversy

Fred Gardaphe

Editorial Note: On January 21 (10am) the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute will host a colloquium entitled "Guido: An Italian-American Youth Style." Guest speakers...

Dialogue and Debate: Not Denigration and Dismissal

Fred Gardaphe

Open Letter to Mr. Arthur Piccolo and all those who believe in boycotting intellectual investigations

Bensonhurst and Italia: Racism and Razzismo (Part I)

Jerry Krase

The 1989 murder of Afro-American Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn became the icon of Italian American intolerance. Recently there has been a disturbing convergence of real...

The Seven Percent Solution?

Maria Laurino

DNA testing adds new complexities to the question about physical similarities between African-Americans and Italian-Americans.

The Race Debate in America and Italy: Should We Do the Right Thing?

Ottorino Cappelli

While Obama clinches the nomination, some Italian- Americans join in the Lee-Eastwood feud over racial prejudices in America. In Italy at the same time, the race issue surfaces in...

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