New York - 27 gennaio The Making of America; and Italians Need Apply! Just Ask Carnegie Hall What about Jazz ? Louis Prima? The Neapolitan Song? Joseph Sciorra’s thoughts: “4 million people left Italy and migrated to the United States between 1880s and 1924 and another 665,000 from 1945 to present, and you could not find or invite one performer working in a host of genres (e.g., folk music, Neapolitan song the American song book) long associated with Italian Americans? That's negligent and shameful.”
New York - 17 dicembre 2017 The Columbus Controversy and the Politics of Omission In this case, Anthony Tamburri discusses the Calandra Institute’s stated policy of neutrality and how the Institute’s neutral position was mis-represented by the phrase, “Calandra is not supporting Columbus,” and nothing more. Hence the politics of omission!
News - 21 agosto 2017 “…And There Was No One Left to Speak for Me” Since Charlottesville, there has been an inordinate amount of talking heads debating the issue. Indeed I have been especially intrigued by those who continue to support Trump and his comments, many of them engaging in all sorts of rhetorical somersaults in order not to condemn explicitly neither the violence of the white supremacist nor the lacking comments of President Trump.
Primo Piano - 1 agosto 2017 “Dove sei andato, Joe DiMaggio?” Di italo-americani ne è pieno il mondo, ma la figura di Anthony Scaramucci (responsabile della comunicazione per la Casa Bianca per 10 giorni) non ne ha ripercorso le caratteristiche migliori. Lo ricorderemo per la sua conversazione telefonica con Ryan Lizza dove è sembrato uno di quei bizzarri, volgari, maleducati “wannabe"
News - 1 agosto 2017 “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?” In his phone conversation with Ryan Lizza, Anthony Scaramucci didn't sound like an Italian-American like Leon Panetta, but much more one of those boorish, vulgar-mouth uneducated wannabes who pepper their language with f-bombs and c-bombs. In this context, a popular culture reference comes to mind, Simon and Garfunkel’s iconic “Mrs. Robinson”.
Libri - 7 giugno 2017 Il Manifesto di Bassetti, una sveglia per tutti gli Italici del mondo In "Let's Wake Up, Italics!" Bassetti rinuncia alla dicotomia di italiani "puri" nei confronti dei discendenti degli italiani e dei popoli "che non avrebbero nemmeno una goccia di sangue italiano nelle loro vene, ma nonostante ciò abbracciarono i valori e lo stile di vita del nostro Paese"
New York - 6 giugno 2017 Bassetti’s Manifesto, a Wake-Up Call for All the Italics of the World The reader of "Let’s Wake Up, Italics!" will realize that Piero Bassetti flattens our hierarchies. He clearly renounces the oft-held dichotomy of “pure” Italians vis-à-vis descendants of Italians and people “who might not have a drop of Italian blood in their veins, but have nonetheless embraced [Italy’s] values, lifestyle, and shared behavioral models.” The presentation June 7th, at the Consulate General of Italy.
EXPAT - 1 febbraio 2017 Quando i mussulmani eravamo noi! Nel 1942 Maria Grazia Antonia Cerulli, con circa altri 695 mila cittadini italiani residenti negli Stati Uniti, fu identificata come "nemica straniera". Così come tutti gli italiani erano considerati violenti e mafiosi, ora sembrerebbe che tutti i mussulmani siano dei potenziali jihadisti
News - 29 gennaio 2017 When We Were The Muslims In 1942 Maria Grazia Antonia Cerulli, along with approximately 695,000 other Italians citizens residing in the United States, was designated an “enemy alien”. As all Italians were seen as violent and Mafiosi, now all Muslims are potential jihadists and hence need to be kept out of the USA. Martin Niemöller’s words as a lesson to be heeded
Homepage - 5 gennaio 2017 Carl Paladino’s Racism: Where Is the Outrage? Italian-American organizations have complained about fictional representations of Italians as Mafiosi. They have gone on to condemn filmmakers such as Coppola, Scorsese, and Chase, to name a few. Yet, they seem to remain silent on such real-life incidents as those involving the likes of Trump's supporter and former Republican candidate for Governor of NY Carl Paladino
