Arts - 28 Luglio 2020 Vito Vincenti of Tiro a Segno: Champion of Italian American Studies at NYU Our most formidable partner in convincing reluctant Tiro members to support the fellowship was The Sopranos, the TV series that captivated audiences but that enraged the Italian American community. Vito and I would begin our discussions with stakeholders with one question: “Would you be happy if all that your grandchildren knew about their Italian heritage was what came from The Sopranos?”
EXPAT - 5 Giugno 2020 Perché molti italoamericani hanno votato e continueranno a votare Donald Trump Per loro il presidente deve rappresentare la loro visione del "sogno americano", una interpretazione tanto forte quanto egoista, per questo amano un imprenditore-showman di successo che se ne frega delle rimostranze dei più deboli per le abitazioni a costi contenuti, per i diritti delle minoranze e dei gay, per l’assistenza medica per i più poveri, per gli assegni di indigenza. Il presidente solletica i bassi istinti dei “blue collar”, per istigarli non solo contro gli immigrati illegali, ma anche contro gli afroamericani, ispanici, cinesi...
People - 11 Aprile 2020 Joseph Tusiani, Poet First and Foremost, Prose Writer, Essayist, Translator, Professor Joseph Tusiani, San Marco in Lamis (FG) 1924 - New York 2020: in addition to his loving family (Michael, Bea, and their children), Joseph Tusiani leaves behind a plethora of friends and former students whose lives were influenced to various degrees by his mentoring, friendship, and kindness.
English - 10 Dicembre 2019 A conversation with the gatekeeper of Bamonte’s Restaurant On a quiet residential street of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bamonte’s Italian restaurant celebrates 118 years and four generations of seamless family transition. Bamonte’s phone rings non-stop. Most Friday afternoons, the restaurant refuses reservations for the weekend. Its 25 tables are filled, thanks in part to John “Bamonte.” He allows this journalist to ask him questions over […]
New York - 7 Dicembre 2018 ‘Built with Faith’ Chronicles the Inerasable Presence of Italian Americans in the City Sciorra is trained as an anthropologist, and his approach demonstrates this. He believes in the necessity of experience and interaction with the “subjects” of his interest – the necessity of ethnography, participant observation, strategies that have very rarely been used in the field of Catholic art
People - 8 Novembre 2018 Idea Festival Is Inspired by Italian Culture: But How Do Italian Americans Fit In? It will be interesting to observe how this heritage continues to renew itself as the shared stories inevitably warp and older relatives’ memories fade away– but whatever happens, Italian Americans today are certainly willing to keep spinning the fabric and providing the tales that unite them
People - 31 Ottobre 2018 Renzo Maietto: Italian American Architect and Entrepreneur, Friend to Steve Bannon A self defined anti-Soros, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump supporter, but above all a man who, despite initial difficulties, has seen the realization of his American dream. His advice? “Maybe I have always brought with me the passiona and creativity to look for beauty in everything I’ve built, starting from my grandma Angelina’s cooking.
EXPAT - 8 Ottobre 2018 Festeggiare il Columbus Day: un’esperienza strana per un italiano a New York Il dibattito nasce in uno strano spazio concettuale dove queste diverse concezioni di Colombo prendono posto agli estremi. Le due non si possono unire perché partono da concetti di Cristoforo Colombo che non si eguagliano. Trattano in maniera diversa il suo significato nel contesto generale. Detto questo, rimane da risolvere un’impossibile questione: dove ci si schiera se si condannano le raccapriccianti azioni dei colonizzatori che Colombo rappresenta, ma si apprezzano comunque le complessità sua rilevanza culturale per la comunità Italo-Americana?
New York - 6 Ottobre 2018 Celebrating Columbus Day: A Peculiar Thing for an Italian in New York The controversy exists in a strange space where incredibly divergent concepts of Columbus exist at the extremes. The two cannot come together because they employ entirely different embodiments of Columbus’ significance. So where do you stand if you condemn the slaughter he represents on one side, but appreciate his cultural relevance to a specific group on the other?
Libri - 21 Aprile 2018 America Between Africa and Italy: John Gennari Talks Flavour and Soul John Gennari, Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont, explores the cultural products of the encounters, now destructive and now creative, between African America and Italian America, in conversation with Francesca Bellei, PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Journeying through two highly sensuous communities, Flavour and Soul: […]