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January 27, 2012
We didn’t come over on the Mayflower!
The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of...
January 3, 2012
Roberto Saviano and the Problems of Italian America
Roberto Saviano Lesson @ NYU
Along with the various observations that have been made by three of our esteemed colleagues (De Stefano, Gardaphé, Krase), and I must emphasize that I am in agreement as well...
September 18, 2011
Is it possible that we just can't help ourselves?
SFGate
“Now, I can put an accent on this, but it seems like we have a situation!” Neil Cavuto, opening his segment with Andre Dimino.
A television host invites an Italian American to come and speak about the potential negativity from something like “Jersey Shore,” and yet cannot help himself from making a...
September 3, 2011
Italian America and September 11, 2001
“After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, people from all over the world reached out to the firefighters and police officers of New York City and their families. At the...
July 11, 2011
Why Liberal Arts Should Be About All Languages.
2010 proved to be an intriguing year with regard to language studies. We saw some programs hit hard, others were actually saved (or so it seems), and others still were re-launched..
October 9, 2010
Some Night Thoughts on the Termination of Italian Language Programs
It surely seems that the termination and/or reduction of Italian studies programs is becoming a habitual thing. Even if not, what can we do about it?
September 28, 2010
Duty calls!
We simply can no longer sit back and react with a “tsk tsk,” a “Mamma Mia,” or a shake of the head and then go about our own business, when some of our co-ethnics...
June 24, 2010
Italian Studies and Its Various and Sundry Challenges...
A Sure Bet: From Italy to England, to the rest of the Western World!
Over the past forty years, from high-school teaching to the university, and into the community, working within Italian Studies has had it challenges, to be sure. In spite of the...
June 3, 2010
Two "paesani" to duke it out...
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Italian America's Dynamic Duo
We have two Italian Americans up for the governorship! What's a "paesano" to do? Let us please have your thoughts!
May 16, 2010
Arizona Ethnic Studies Bill And Then Some...
Cittadini di Trattinopoli...
I wrote about one thing on the Calandra Institute list-serve (the Arizona Ethnic Studies Bill), and, among the many responses, people spoke to another issue, as you can see below....
March 30, 2010
Piero Bassetti's "Lezioni italiche"
As we look at Italy's contemporary immigration policies and the resultant challenges, we sometimes muse that, had Italy studied more profoundly its own historical emigration,...
January 21, 2010
Guido: an Italian American Youth Style
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, January 21. My opening comments for "Guidos, an Italian American Youth Style"
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