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Explaining American Politics Again: The Health of Democracy

Jerry Krase

It is difficult to explain why, in reference to the passage of HR3962 "The Affordable Health Care for America Act," so many people who will actually benefit from it protested...

Italian Americans Between Guidos and Columbus. An Interview with Nancy Carnevale

Ottorino Cappelli

There is nothing new in certain segments of the community trying to impose their views of what it means to be Italian American on others. This controversy reminds me of recent...

The Vergognosi of Staten Island

Joey Skee

Again, Italian Americans are involved in racist attacks. Again, it's time to speak up.

Racism/Razzismo Part III: Lest We Forget: Racism Will Make Victims of Us All

Jerry Krase

This essay is the third, and last, in my series alluding to the similarities between Bensonhurst 1989 and Italy 2008.

Racism/Razzismo Part II: Yusuf Hawkins and the Closing of the American Mind

Jerry Krase

This was the first of two articles I wrote in The Brooklyn Free Press shortly after Yusuf Hawkins' murder in the summer of 1989. Although it concerns his brutal slaying by a...

Youth Masses, Black Skin, and Italian Beat Music

Laura E. Ruberto

A look at the Italian youth masses of the 1960s, beat music, and una ragazza from New Orleans.

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

Do the Correct Thing

Jerry Krase

Looking for and unfortunately finding common elements in "The Race Debate in America and Italy”

The Seven Percent Solution?

Maria Laurino

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

Forgetting the Past: Ethnic Identity and How Italian and English Fail Us

Laura E. Ruberto

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...

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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