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A Few Random Thoughts after The Loss of Two Friends!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

When our role models leave us, where do we go to look for others? This is, for sure, one of the questions that arises after the loss of both Rudi Vecoli and Rocco Caporale, two...

The European Union’s Immigration Policy and Italian Immigrants in Latin America

Laura E. Ruberto

Invoking Italy’s history of emigration, activists and politicians in Latin America condemn the European Union’s latest anti-immigration stand.

Whites on a Leash: Italian Americans and White Privilege in the U.S.

Fred Gardaphe

If not totally black, Italians have certainly complicated the notion of whiteness in America so that they are neither totally white, and it is this in-between status, that makes...

James Bond Hates Italians

Marc Edward DiPaolo

We all know that Bond hates women. But he's also leery of Italians, and Americans, and everyone who isn't British. However, he just LOVES scrambled eggs

Do the Correct Thing

Jerry Krase

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

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.”

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...

Becoming Italian-American

Stephanie Longo

Sometimes ethnicity is a choice rather than a fact.

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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