Lifestyles - 28 Gennaio My COVID “Disguise”: Does Wearing a Mask Change Who I Am? “We are actors on the stage of our own theater, and we script a role for ourselves through ‘impression management’”. Speaking from personal experience, I sorely miss my wardrobe. As I prepared for work each day to teach at my college, I could choose what part of my personality I wanted to act out that day. Did I feel mysterious and sophisticated? Go for the black on black. How about girly and casual? Sporty and active? All possibilities. Now that I work from home I’m no longer “performing” in front of my audience, I dress for my daily run and yoga instead because….
News - 23 Ottobre 2018 “Identity is not Left-wing”? A Politics of Meaning To Broaden Our Look The whole view related to this demand is able to take only a part of the issue into account. It focuses on the effects, but is blind to the cause – namely, it considers the demand for identity as the ultimate problem, rather than its symptom. It therefore behaves as if the problem were to treat the fever, without seeing the infection that has to be cured
News - 20 Agosto 2018 Orban & Co.: The Siren of Identity That Is Seducing Europe Before this anthropological more than political drift, the temptation many contemporary liberal thinkers – be they from the left or right – is to adopt a defensive position. Yet, in so doing what is fostered is, paradoxically, the “we/them” juxtaposition and with it the consequent militarization of affects that is the fuel of the ultra-right project
People - 27 Marzo 2018 Are Italian Americans the White’s Clowns? Not Only Columbus Has Failed Us Italian Americans have become the worst of ourselves. We made Columbus into the representative for the vestiges of a vanishing identity. Interestingly, perhaps subconsciously, we have selected someone whose conquests align with an ultra-masculine identity we deem as authentically Italian American. I came to experience that outsized and outdated machismo first hand. I had just come back from college after coming out...
EXPAT - 11 Ottobre 2015 A proposito di Columbus Day Da parte di un Siciliano che ha avuto nonno e figlio immigrati in USA e che ha seguito tutte le loro peripezie attraverso le cellette al secondo piano di Ellis Island... un Siciliano, da secoli razzialmente discriminato negli USA dai wasp, vuole umilmente ricordare che non si riabilita un popolo, non si riconoscono le infamie subite e i massacri patiti, non si affermano i propri diritti, togliendoli ad altri che se li sono conquistati con sacrifici inauditi...
English - 10 Ottobre 2014 Columbus: Forget about Him; Remember the Future! The very narratives of Italian American identity deal with the issues of remembering and forgetting both Italy and Little Italys, and today one of the master narratives of Italian American identity appears once a year in the celebration of Columbus Day
Lingua Italiana - 10 Ottobre 2014 Come affrontare la storia controversa di Cristoforo Colombo a scuola Non è facile insegnare la storia di Cristoforo Colombo in una classe d'italiano senza rischiare di offendere studenti che provengono da culture che non hanno alcuna stima per le imprese dell'esploratore genovese. Eppure, soprattutto in ottobre, arriva il momento di spiegare perché New York celebra con la gran parata il Columbus Day