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“Cucina Italica”? An Exercise in Post-Colonial, Mutual Understanding

Ottorino Cappelli(July 05, 2009)

Can you “cook good and eat well” even if you are not trying to imitate some dinner from some far-off restaurant in Italy? Musings around an interesting article, the politics of “cuisine criticism,” and the strange relationship between Italians and Italian Americans.

Facts & Stories

A Tragedy Without Borders. Solidarity from New York

O. C.(April 09, 2009)

Two days after the Abruzzo earthquake, members of the Italian American caucus of the New York City Council call upon everybody, regardless of their ethnic background, to assist with the relief effort

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A Brief Return to Rationalism

Maria Laurino(February 06, 2009)

How British rationalists first soothe, then make me seethe.

Art & Culture

Felix Stefanile, the "Everyman" Poet

Anthony Julian Tamburri(January 29, 2009)

Italian America has lost one of its greatest poets and thinkers. In exhorting his Italian/American sisters and brothers to learn of their history, he once stated, "There is no ontology without archaeology!" Felix always knew how to say what had to be said.

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Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment

Joey Skee(January 19, 2009)

Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.

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Obamania or Obamaphobia: Italians in a Post-Bush America

Jerry Krase(November 13, 2008)

Italian American intellectuals and Italians in Italy might have given great support to Barack Obama's historic Presidential triumph but Italian American voters, at least those in New York, can hardly expect much in the way of thanks from the new tenants of the White House.

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

Jerry Krase(October 18, 2008)

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 cowardly group of bigoted hoodlums in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, it connects that single, very local, act to city-wide, nation-wide, and indeed world-wide issues of racism and politics.

Life & People

No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings

Stephanie Longo(July 17, 2008)

Take love of community, ethnic pride, and add a dash of Dean Martin and you have Scranton’s own Jack DeLeo.

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

Fred Gardaphe(June 24, 2008)

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 them likely candidates to support the abolition of whiteness as a privilege status in the U.S.A.

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The Hyphen Is There To Fill The Void

Renata Conte(April 28, 2008)

I initiate my blog by posting my entry to the digital witness contest, for which I am proud to say, earned me a first place prize. It’s an overview of the many, many experiences that have alerted me to my position in the Italo-American world, or lack thereof.

You chose: italian americans

“Cucina Italica”? An Exercise in Post-Colonial, Mutual Understanding

A Tragedy Without Borders. Solidarity from New York

A Brief Return to Rationalism

Felix Stefanile, the "Everyman" Poet

Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment

Obamania or Obamaphobia: Italians in a Post-Bush America

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

No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings

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

The Hyphen Is There To Fill The Void

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