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Food & Wine - 6 Ottobre

Paisans of the World, Unite! We Are Also Italian, With Our Spaghetti and Meatballs

Italian Americans, their adaptation of Italian dishes and their tastes are judged as being impure in a patronizing and condescending manner… But this mythical Italian-ness, put on a pedestal as an ideal to which all other criteria must come second, is defined by whom? Are the newly arrived from Italy better able to judge?

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People - 24 Gennaio

Now that I Live in His Country, My Reflective Images of Nonno in New York

I understand you on your own terms now, Nonno. Before you were a foreigner in my country, now I am one in yours. Funny how symmetrical life can be sometimes.

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Arts - 4 Gennaio

Gay Talese on Italian American Writers: The Epitomy

In this brief video segment taken from a conference on Frank Sinatra, organized by Professor Stanislao Pugliese of Hofstra University, renowned journalist and bestselling author Gay Talese, tells the audience that Italian Americans at the beginning of the 19th Century did not have “a tradition of writing novels.” As they landed in this new country, […]

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People - 3 Gennaio

What Does It Mean to Be Italian American? I Have No Idea

You can’t assimilate without abandoning your heritage, and you can’t embrace your heritage the way the old-timers would like without appearing as an outsider. The challenge is finding a happy medium between the two... I once asked my Grandmother why she never went back to visit Italy; she said: “For what? All I had there was miseria.”

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Lifestyles - 17 Dicembre 2018

What Does Christmas Look Like in an Italian American Family?

Usually an Italian American family Christmas involves at least 20 people, and that is just counting the immediate family. So, it’s very important that everything is studied to detail for the special day. For starters it’s important to count the chairs, because not only will you have to have the right amount of chairs, you also need some extra ones. "Why?" you may ask.

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EXPAT - 12 Aprile 2018

La vecchia e la nuova patria. L’identità problematica degli italoamericani

I genitori restavano fedeli alle proprie origini; i figli aderivano al sogno americano e americani volevano essere considerati. Ma i membri della seconda generazione di italoamericani, nel corso del XX secolo, hanno affrontato un enorme dilemma nello scegliere la propria identità culturale. Con l'obiettivo, il più delle volte, di accedere a una mobilità sociale verso l'alto

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People - 3 Aprile 2018

As the Columbus Day Debate Rages On, So do the Time-Worn Stereotypes

The number of Italian Americans who hold themselves apart from the Columbus standard bearers is substantial. That we do not have a public voice is not for the lack of trying. There are academics, journalists, and independent scholars pursuing the subject in the form of presentations and publications. Yet, when these folks come together to discuss concerns related to Columbus, or other matters pertinent to Italian Diaspora studies, the mainstream media is nowhere to be found.

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People - 3 Aprile 2018

Italian Americans the White’s Clowns? Attacking Your Own Is not the Answer

To judge and mock an entire ethnic group is the worst kind of stereotype mongering. It’s the equivalent of using the hated N- word to describe an entire race. It’s even worse when the denigration comes from within the group.

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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...

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EXPAT - 27 Marzo 2018

Real Italians? Analisi della nuova emigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti

"New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol 2: Art and Culture Since 1945" è il secondo volume sulle nuove migrazioni italiane oltre oceano che presenta i "veri" italiani negli Stati Uniti e abbatte, attraverso lo studio di cultura e arte italo-americane, le configurazioni classiche dei flussi migratori dallo stivale agli USA. A discuterne sono stati i curatori e autori Joseph Sciorra, Laura Ruberto, John Allan Cicala, Teresa Fiore e Anthony Julian Tamburri

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