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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?

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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: […]

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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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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 I came to experience that outsized and outdated machismo first hand.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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Meredith, from New York to Cagliari to Study the Italian language of Her Ancestors

The story of Meredith lies a little outside the leitmotif of this column, through which we retrace the steps of Goethe's “Journey in Italy”: "My family has been Italian for at least three generations. The first ones to arrive in the USA were my great-great-grandparents, who emigrated to the United States in 1905. My grandparents and my father, however, did not speak and still do not speak Italian, and today I am the only one in the family who knows the language", she said.

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