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Geraldine Ferraro, One Year After Her Departure

Diana Del Monte

Aileen Riotto Sirey, Founder and Chair of NOIAW, meets i-Italy to share her memories of her best friend Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman be a candidate for Vice-Presidency of...

All About Italy, in Sixty Minutes

ALICE BONVICINI

With Laura Caparrotti up and down the peninsula, among stereotypes, customs and dialects. We talked with Laura about her one-woman show “ABC.. L'Italiano Si Impara Così”

Jersey Boys: Italian Americans Beyond Stereotypes

Benedetta Grasso

Going to see the Broadway hit "Jersey Boys" with an Italian and an American friend made me reflect on the representation of Italian Americans in show business and my personal...

An American with an Italian Name. Hindrance or Advantage?

Darrell Fusaro

Most Italian-Italians, the ones from Italy, that is, always seem to be curious as to how we Italian-Americans are perceived by others in America. With all the news they’ve...

National Italian American Foundation Official Statement: MTV’s “Jersey Shore”

Joseph V. Del Raso (NIAF President)

Editors’ Note: We do not doubt that the media can and have had a dilatory effect on how certain members of society may look upon others. We also realize that Italian Americans...

Guidos and Negros

Jerry Krase

The Italian and Italian American traditions share many common practices, the most important of which for the case at hand is the knack for rhetorical and other displays. It is the...

On Guidos, Gramsci, and Irony Deficiency

Laura E. Ruberto

Why Italian Americans need to take action, a Pasquinian response to some recent debates.

This is Gonna be Harder Than I Thought

Renata Conte

Another attempt at bonding with my fellow Italian-Americans

Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be

Michael Parenti*

To frame the Italian-American experience within a context of struggle for social justice and economic survival is to give it a dimension that goes beyond nostalgia and...

A Brief Return to Rationalism

Maria Laurino

How British rationalists first soothe, then make me seethe.

Italian Spiderman! Mistery, Parody, and Stereotypes

Antonio Enrico Buonocore

An interview with Dario Russo, the Italian-Australian film student who invented the fortunate web series.

How I found the Italian in me.

Crystal May Ainardi

I’ve never read the book, “Were You Always an Italian?” by Maria Laurino, so I won’t pretend I have, but the reviews are a mixed bag

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